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NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’(www.techdirt.com)

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yarr@feddit.nl
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Violent crime has decreased since the 1990s as video games (including violent ones) have continued to grow in popularity. If anything, this establishes that violent video games prevent violent crime.

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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.

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Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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I’m pretty sure that is the point

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djsoren19@yiffit.net
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Sure, but they’ve only ever had correlational evidence to suggest video games cause violence. Their own correlational evidence does not support their conclusions, and that should be called out and ridiculed.

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Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).

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