Timeline for answer to Do violent video games cause violent behavior? by Konrad Rudolph
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| Sep 1, 2020 at 1:12 | comment | added | user11643 | Great update! Earned my upvote. I definitely need to look more closely at meta-analyses procedures and specifically "controlled effect size" to understand this argument better. | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 18:08 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @Laurel I’ve now completely rewritten the answer to more directly reflect the wording and conclusions of actual studies. The summary doesn’t change, but details did. This took me half a day. Damn. | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 18:07 | history | edited | Konrad Rudolph | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
complete rewrite based on modern meta-analyses and consensus polls
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| Aug 30, 2020 at 20:02 | comment | added | Laurel | Can this answer be edited to reference the sources directly? The quoted section was cut out of the Wikipedia article so I don't know what it's referring to. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 10:39 | comment | added | ANeves | @vartec, a decent control group could be kids playing non-violent games. | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 13:59 | comment | added | Tjaart | I used to get very aggressive playing Mario when I was losing lives the whole time. Is sportsmanship controlled for in these studies. The kid who keeps winning is probably not as violent as the kid who is cannon fodder. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 11:15 | comment | added | vartec | @KitSunde: it only 91%, because it's kids between 2 and 17. In the age group 2-5 it's still bit lower. And yes, I would find children who don't play games, don't use internet or don't watch TV, because parents won't let them. I wouldn't call them typical. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 10:33 | comment | added | Kit Sunde | @vartec Having a preference that is shared by 1 out of 10 people hardly seem like you would be remarkably abnormal. I'm sure you could find a fairly large group of children that don't play computer games for the only reason that their parents don't let them. You could also compare people who stopped playing computer games with the people that didn't. I think you are making this seem harder than it actually is. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 9:41 | comment | added | vartec | @KitSunde: the 9% is not the control group, because control group should be unbiased. In the Western World kids, who nowadays don't play video games and don't use internet, are nither average nor normal. | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 20:00 | comment | added | Kit Sunde | @vartec That's country specific, there's about 2 billion children on the planet according to wolframalpha. I would assume it's not 91 percent in rural china. Also the 9 percent is the control group. | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 12:47 | comment | added | vartec | Will never know, because it's not possible to get control group. According to recent studies: "91 percent of kids between 2 and 17, or about 64 million people, are playing video games" | |
| May 20, 2011 at 2:43 | comment | added | Mateen Ulhaq | I guess it depends on the gamer? | |
| Mar 24, 2011 at 11:57 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @Keir That’s basically what I said in my last sentence … and as a non-expert in this field it is really hard (not to mention really hard work) to individually judge the studies for their respective rigour and scientific value. | |
| Mar 24, 2011 at 11:35 | comment | added | Keir Liddle | You have to compare each meta-analysis you can't just assume that they are all conducted with the same methodological rigour as each other. Also the breadth of the inclusion criteria will seriously affect the results. Do the papers use the same quality selection criteria for instance. Do they include the same papers? | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 18:40 | vote | accept | anthony137 | ||
| Mar 11, 2011 at 23:01 | comment | added | Jakub Hampl | Modern cognitive models of aggression tend to show from 3 to 5 dissociated facets of aggression only one of which is violent behaviour. Of what I've read, aggression is reasonably correlated with violent gaming but evidence of violent behaviour tends to not be. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 10:39 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | And yes, I realise that this is the same article that you have linked to. It deserves an own answer because it is of high quality and outlines the issue very clearly. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 10:34 | history | answered | Konrad Rudolph | CC BY-SA 2.5 |