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minus-squareyarr@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·13 days agoViolent 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.
minus-squarePieMePlenty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·13 days agoCorrelation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
minus-squareKbobabob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·13 days agoI’m pretty sure that is the point
minus-squareyarr@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoRight, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).
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.
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
I’m pretty sure that is the point
Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).