Fixed.

Then you should delete my comment!

That seems impolite.

Yeah, one can delete one's own comment.

They should do a study with little kids watching kung fu movies and then see if they fight afterward. We always did. Play fighting was fun. Puppies fight. Are you(the article) making the claim that puppies are bad? If so, you are dumb. Puppies are not always bad. Except when they p(ee|oop) in the house.

Science has revealed to me the following incontrovertible law of nature, expressed mathematically for greater precision and foolificationizability: "puppies = bad"

OMGSTFU!

βη-convertibility.

either they have a valid experiment, in which case it's a really significant result and the journalist in question has horribly botched describing it, or else it's a bigger tragedy that even scientists are still making such textbook mistakes

There's a third option, which I believe is the most common one: the researchers are aware that their study (not an experiment) does not reveal causation, but the journalist inflated their scarcely significant result into a story. Media reporting of scientific results is generally atrocious, at least in psychology.

Whoops, I meant to include that possibility.

Oh, and thanks for pointing out my error in calling it an experiment as well.

Yeah, it's like when people who drink a glass of wine a day live longer.

If you're the kind of person who likes to relax and sit with a glass of wine at the end of the day, I think that says a lot about you as a person, you're likely not going to be insanely stressed out, and you're not likely to be pounding beers and getting overweight. THAT is why you're going to live longer. Not the wine.

Why don't you write to the reporter?

ditto! or the "scientists", find out what they were really trying to do.

Duh, I'm a theoretician; I don't change the world, I whine about it.

Sounds like you need to be pushed down the stairs.

Then can it, joelle_van_dyne.

nice comment. I wish I could add it to my memories. (I can only add the whole thread)

But anyway, there is also the possibility that both PLAYING VIDEO GAMES and BEING VIOLENT follow from the same cause, but are otherwise independent. Such a cause might be EXCESS ENERGY or POOR CHANNELING OF ENERGY.

I tend to believe from observation that when my brother plays video games for too long, he gets more impatient, but I can't come up with an explaination.