Research Review Finds No Conclusive Link Between Games and Violence

[The Wykydtron]

Hehe I believe my Avatar has something to say on the subject

"Don't compare Games to Reality, a Game is a Game, Reality is Reality. Those who try to link them, They are the ones who can't tell the difference!"

 

[Lance Arrow]

So Australians are telling us that there's no conclusive link between videogames and violence?

Wow, looks like the world isn't bereft of miracles yet. Common sense 1, biased politicians 0.

 

[ENKC]

Obviously, this review isn't going to magically make everything better, but it will go a long way to countering one of the main arguments about relaxing the restrictions on games in Australia. The next Attorney-General meeting is on December 10th, where the matter will be discussed further. Hopefully this review will help push the Attorney-Generals' collective opinion more allowing games to come out in Australia without having to be sanitized and censored first.

Sorry, I'm going to have to grammar Nazi you here. The plural is Attorneys-General. Otherwise, I'm interested to see a local issue here receiving international attention.

 

[Iconoclasm]

I don't know...

While I'm glad there's yet another study to show this, the unfortunate thing is that every study on the subject comes to us from the social sciences, which lack the fundamental cohesion, unity and proper methodology found in the natural sciences. The problem is that yet another study won't stop criticisms of this kind from arising because there are likely other studies being published as you read this contradicting these results - and so on. This particular problem, as stated early, is not endemic to psychology and political 'science' (the assumed originators of studies like this one) but most of the studies that claim to take, as their subject, a human behavior or (and I hate this word) the "mind."

tl;dr - Glad there's more evidence for a position of obvious merit, but it comes from a science with crap methodology and no cohesion between itself and the other social "sciences" - who equally lack fundamental unity. .

 

[SinisterGehe]

No matter do I play violent video games or not, I am still the same person I was before. My behavior in-game reflect the way I do decisions in real life, (By this I mean like, Do I go around the obstacle or do I go over it. Not stuff like, do I sacrifice myself so others can kill a boss...) I am still the person who follows rules and orders long as they make sense and I will also take a lead if I need to. I act the same way in real life.

 

[Tharwen]

This bears no weight in the face of all the other studies that get quoted in this debate.

How about we stop flinging research statistics at each other and actually argue about it?

 

[imnot]

Wait they only just worked it out?
also whats the game in the picture, looks awsome.

 

[Beeple]

My mindset upon reading the headline:
"Ooh a study that actually supports gaming, this has already been established several times but meh. Gah if it were against gaming I'd be in here criticising how it was executed, best do it anyway for consistency"

My mindset upon reading the article:
"Ooh meta-analysis no direct criticism other than 'We've done this already'"
Well played Australia, well played.

 

[Retardinator]

No shit!
Wasn't this concluded, like, 50 times already? I swear that headline makes a hell of a deja vu.

 

[mattttherman3]

Well it's about time we get some better news from australia in the ongoing effort to get an R18 classification for their interactive entertainment.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

"Hopefully this review will help push the Attorneys'-General collective opinion more allowing games to come out in Australia without having to be sanitized and censored first." Hear, hear!

 

[ssgt splatter]

Great! I hope the people in the supreme court see this review.

 

[Bloodstain]

And next month someone proves the opposite again...then, the following month someone will prove the opposite of the opposite...

 

[ph0b0s123]

The only thing that gives me violent tendancies with video games, is trying to get poorly wrtten / bugged ones to work. Once I am playing, I am perfectly calm.

Maybe they should do a study into violent tendancies due to baddy coded games. Maybe that's the link they have been missing all along....