> the ban was necessary as these games were leading to violent behaviour among children and youth
Ah another claim that video games cause violence not backed by any sciecific data.
Ah another claim that video games cause violence not backed by any sciecific data.
Im only looking at the crime rates in the US using wikipedia [1], and the crimes are going down. Im certain that this trend is similar in other developed countries that have a long history of violent movies and video games.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
How so? One could easily make the claim they cause a small increase in violence but changes in our society (such as better ability to find criminals using DNA and video recording, more tolerance of displays of violence that harm no one, removal of lead from gasoline, etc.) have a larger effect in the opposite direction for most individuals. Science won't toss out such large sets of poorly collected data, but neither will it make definite judgments off of it.