Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’
yarr@feddit.nl 1 week 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 1 week ago
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m pretty sure that is the point
djsoren19@yiffit.net 1 week 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 1 week ago
Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).