Are We all Doomed?

This is the link to the artical I read.
http://ithp.org/articles/violentvideogames.html

The point that this article is trying to relay to us is that violent video games directly affect you negatively. This article covers this issue and does try to answer some questions that I thought of immediately when read the headline. Like is there a difference between movies and video games because movies are set in a more realistic world? Some people believe that they can be good for you like eye hand coordination.

 He squashes both of those thoughts I had. The first he uses three bullet points in how video games are worse than movies and TV.  He does however in the three points only use one study done and that only is to answer or cover just that idea. In his final statement about that question uses the words “empirical evidence” to support his statements and references that study. The second thought I had was referenced directly. He even says and offers references to studies done that say they can help eye hand coordination. However that is answered only after he has pointed and made statement that to the contrary that over a hundred and thirty studies say that it directly increases aggressive behaviors and decreases helping behaviors and feelings of empathy. A well placed answer with empirical evidence to support his thoughts.

After that I was hooked into wanting to know what he had to say because he stopped both thoughts I had. It gave me the idea that he was going to give a clear answer to that question, a question that is in the media all the time and really is in the back of  my mind having five children of my own.

So only after he has stopped some of the doubt does he get to the answer of his first statement. He poses it into a question formation of basically why do you doubt my theory. He again puts it into a bullet point format and use question answer format. All answers are direct to the point and uses again empirical evidences by quoting studies that support that answer. He even throws into one of his answers a visual bar graph to make it pleasing to the eyes of how his answer is right. Which I feel was there only to convince that visual sense we have.

Then to close his theory he does in one sentence try to down grade “some” social scientists and “non-expert” media.  He finishes that with statement of “vast majority” believing in his theory and again references studies done to support that.

I was able to find all of his references very easily through Google search by copying and pasting the reference he gave all most all of them came up with in the first 5 listings under the search and I was even able to find the actual papers that were written from those studies.

In all it was very convincing because of a well thought out format of answering questions with his ideas and quoting empirical evidence to support his answers. It even made me think of getting rid of my game system games that are violet. But it was a fleeting thought and is gone now. LOL