Timeline for What studies exist regarding computer usage and computer game playing that support limiting access?
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| Dec 8, 2011 at 19:34 | comment | added | Daniel Standage | Those are some excellent points. The studies above should be taken just for what they're worth. | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 19:29 | comment | added | Doug | I didn't mean to offend you. I'm merely trying to point out that these kind of studies are spun out of control by anyone who wishes to advance their particular agenda. There's virtually no effort to actually address things like... does playing video games make people have poor relationships, or are people who have poor relationships drawn to play video games? There's a difference, despite the argument that they perhaps should work on their relationships instead of playing games, because the later applies to a subset of the population, whereas the former is cross-cutting. | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 19:13 | comment | added | Daniel Standage | @Doug Thanks for the quality, well-thought-out comment. I don't think anybody implied that correlation is causation. The OP asked what types of studies support limiting video game usage. These are simply a few examples of studies parents might base these decisions on, as well as a few counter-examples. You're probably right to say that we cannot establish causation (like I said, I didn't read the research), but you'd be naive to assume that the correlation is uninformative simply because it doesn't imply causation. | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 18:51 | comment | added | Doug | Correlation does not equal causation. Next up: Going to College causes kids to drink! | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 18:24 | history | answered | Daniel Standage | CC BY-SA 3.0 |