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Re:Ten year study: No link between violent video games and a... by Blikkentrekker on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @02:48PM (#25573966)
My rule for analyzing social science is: “it's bullshit till proven otherwise.”.

The simple fact is that I cannot ever think of any solid methodology to investigate a “link” between these two things and that the man who devises it would deliver a rather groundbreaking idea.

How would a study such as this even work?; it's all Quatsch.

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Re:Ten year study: No link between violent video games and a... by andrewla on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:27AM (#25582445)
The only difference between your view and mine is this:

> till proven otherwise

It's still bullshit even if proven otherwise. If I roll my magic dice and determine that it's going to rain tomorrow, and it ends up raining, this in no way validates my methodology.

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