Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’
yarr@feddit.nl 2 months ago
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.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure that is the point
djsoren19@yiffit.net 2 months ago
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.
yarr@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).