Recent content by Phyroxis

He stabbed them over a dispute (about video games). The dispute is the cause attributed to the stabbing. Video games were only the subject of the dispute. Authorities blamed the dispute, not video games.

The article never blamed video games? It said the kid attacked his grandmothers after they told him to stop playing games, but not that the games made him attack. It could have been them telling him to stop watch TV or quit masturbating. Video games was not the target of this article, it just...

Lol. Son kills mother because he doesnt want to play yahtzee: http://weinterrupt.com/2011/07/son-kills-mother-because-he-doesnt-want-to-play-yahtzee/ Who is to blame for this one? Yahtzee?

Yeah, good job, Spain. You got ALL of Anon in Spain. Yay!

And you continue to disregard what I say. This is over.

Double-post as a result of some strange first-post-not-showing-up-problem. Delete this.

Correlation =|= causation. That is a fact. From a definition standpoint, they are two separate concepts. They are not the same thing. That being said, correlation is a perfectly good tool for science. You need to separate fact from opinion. Core to your attack on me is the assumption that I...

I never said Astronomy was invalid..? Nor that correlation was unacceptable. I never said the Escapist was beyond reproach. If you look at my first reply to this thread, it contains a lot of frustration with Tito's mishandling of the article. And no, APA does not > The Escapist nor does...

No, I'm not judging you on the fact you misspelled something. I'm judging you on the fact that you opened your post with "I'm an ex-psych major" as an assertion of expertise. Which it is not. Its like saying "I know how to use a hammer" and then calling yourself a General Contractor. It does...

Absolutely you can take this seriously. Should you instantly believe it? No, but that doesn't mean its pseudo-science or that it carries no weight. Science is all about testing and evaluating claims in an empirical way. To be able to publish in a scientific journal, these authors had to have a...

That does not disprove my assertion. All it said is that correlational studies provide opportunity for things to be disproven. This is true. But never will correlational design establish clear causality. You can make your case stronger and stronger but correlation can never say A => B only A is...

See modern military boot camp. You think the rough obstacle courses with live fire are just for shits and giggles? =P Also, oops. Looks like I got stuck in a triple-post.

*like* Causality may be questionable, but there certainly is a correlation.

See the modern American medical model? Also, your claim isn't entirely true. There are some things that are really well documented (some phobias, for example) and source-understood. But, yeah, there are plenty of things that have indeterminable roots. That doesn't, however, mean you can't...

Not always the case. Besides, we're talking about two different things, one is looking at violent pictures and the other is actually causing harm (possibly) to another person. The study is saying that someone who has just played a violent video games has less of a mental aversion, or is less...