Right well first of all you idiot the phrase is 'at my fingertips' not 'on my fingertips'. You reading made up stories on your finger tips are you? Bit small? Maybe that's why you can?t get your facts right.
Also, you said and this is verbatim "The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in videogames". All the studies mentioned, were primarily about violence, and little to do with your original statement of largely increasing rape, which the reports didn't even say. in regard to the first report linked, when they were specifically referring to videos games, they said 'video games etc...', the one part that mentions rape talks about "media", so that is all of media; films, books, tv, magazines etc. Video games clearly weren't singled out because of the lack of a significant causal link, and the way to make the link significant was to group all of media together.
The second, when it discusses rape in relation to violent video games comes under the section, psychoticism, basically saying those who are already pre-disposed to being psychotic, given the right environment, will have an increased likelihood of doing psychotic things. Well everybody in psychology already knew that, and it is environment, that is everything from a stressful relationship, to being bullied. Video games have nothing to do with this at all; they are just being classed as an environment and being blamed by an obviously bias researcher.
As already pointed out by the readers of Escapist, the FBI stats show she is speaking nonsense. Even if there was an increase, anyone who has ever done stats will know that you cannot draw causal links between two variables without more research. Stats identify trends and can suggest links, but do not prove anything unless it is out rightly comparing the two. Like Durkheim's study into suicide, one cannot say that people commit suicide less because of religion creating social cohesion, when other social factors like coroners not putting the cause of death as suicide as it would have negative and damning ramifications on the family, families hiding suicide notes because it will damage the family name and so on are playing a major role in the creation of these statistics. Maybe any localised increase is due to a women?s aid centre opening, I remember when they first started opening the centres to look after abused women, rape stats in those areas rose. Was it die to the recent release of a video game, or because the centres provided a safe place for women to take refuge after attacks, where they encouraged and supported them if they wanted to report it when the normally wouldn't.
Frankly, this women is getting on my nerves and its bad scientists, like her (though I feel sick calling her one), and probably the studies she is quoting (I haven't had time to go through each one cited on the documents posted, but I will), as I have yet been handed any well performed research that provides links between video games creating rapists, murderers, thieves etc, make people hate psychologists. If it's not idiots on TV spouting their half understanding of archaic theories like Freud, it's people like her who just deal in half-truths and bad scientific method.
(Sorry for the long/ ranty post)xx
