Hillary Clinton calls for federal game violence study

[8th lutz]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152481.html

 

Thats Wonderful more wasted money paid by the tax payers.

 

There already had money wasted studys like nosepicking, how many years it takes a monkey to die from eating diapers. Those two exmaples were reported in the early 90's

 

There shouldn't be a study on this. What needs to be done is to blame the parents not doing their job.

 

Taxpayers are paying for too many programs that aren't working already the way it is.

[jetset]

You forgot to mention the study they did on how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop.

[s1lence]

Why is it that they always need studies? Do they feel that some people need a job so hey let's make a federal grant to study the Ardvark? Enough is enough , stop spending our money on pointless garbage.

[Ferris]

eww.

[BydoEmpire]

On the other hand, if they find "once and for all" no link between games and violent behaviour, then the issue can finally drop. Not that I expect that to happen. Doing a study like this doesn't really bother me.

[MCHufnagel]

On the other hand, if they find "once and for all" no link between games and violent behaviour, then the issue can finally drop. Not that I expect that to happen. Doing a study like this doesn't really bother me.

Fat chance of that happening. Studies tend to show what the backers (i.e MONEY) of that study want proven.

[jetset]

On the other hand, if they find "once and for all" no link between games and violent behaviour, then the issue can finally drop. Not that I expect that to happen. Doing a study like this doesn't really bother me.

Fat chance of that happening. Studies tend to show what the backers (i.e MONEY) of that study want proven.

 

Then in that case the videogame companies would ensure that no link is ever found since by and far they are the ones with the money.

[MCHufnagel]

On the other hand, if they find "once and for all" no link between games and violent behaviour, then the issue can finally drop. Not that I expect that to happen. Doing a study like this doesn't really bother me.

Fat chance of that happening. Studies tend to show what the backers (i.e MONEY) of that study want proven.

 

Then in that case the videogame companies would ensure that no link is ever found since by and far they are the ones with the money.

But in this case the backer of the study would be the federal government. Now if the game companies started their own study, then you would be right.

[Video]

On the other hand, if they find "once and for all" no link between games and violent behaviour, then the issue can finally drop. Not that I expect that to happen. Doing a study like this doesn't really bother me.

 

Unfortunately, what they will do is only study the kids of parents that are never home, give the kid 20 bucks and tell them to do whatever.

 

This will show the kids that play violent games and watch violent movies have a tendancy to be more violent than the kids that don't

 

Now if they would only use the cases with responsible parrents that are always helping the kids decide which games to get (reguardless of rateing) and explaining the difference between reality and games, they'd have a much calmer bunch of Violence watching/playing kids.

 

I've said it once, and....well, millions of times. But the fact of the matter, I've always loved my violent video games. But my parents were useually there to supervise.

 

In fact, I've attributed my lack of violence in real life, to the fact that I can go home and waist people, monsters, or tetris blocks on a game.

 

If any of the studys were ever taken serious, then they would all pop up the same problems. Kids with parents who aren't there, being parents, are more likely to be fucked up than kids with responsible parents.

 

The problem, and fact of the matter is, parent want the study's, not because they want the truth, but because they don't want the finger pointed at themselves.

Edited June 8, 2006 by Video

[jedijeff]

Yes it's true, the federal government is just as good at wasting taxpayer dollars as AA posters are at complaining about sony.

[deathtrappomegranate]

We don't know the effects. Never have children been raised in such a media-saturated environment. How do we get more research, better facts and evidence?

 

Unless Congress acts, the parenting experience will be nothing more than a great experiment on our children. I'd like to have a little more reassurance that it's going to turn out all right.

 

It seems that she's arguing for "evidence-based parenting". Video games, and media in general, IMO, is a strange place to start with such a proposal.

 

In fact, very little is known about the effects of many parenting practices. There is no "reassurance that it's all going to turn out all right" in parenting, and that was a very stupid comment for someone who is often suggested as the first female president.

 

If Congress were to attempt to ensure that all parenting was without risk, that there was no "experimentation", they would have time for nothing else, and would fail, in any case. Most parents that I know are perpetually engaged in attempting to do what's best for their kids, but there is no such thing as "parenting by numbers".

 

As far as the specific issue of whether violent video games lead to violence in society is concerned, I would suggest that it's impossible to prove a negative. It can never be said for certain that this doesn't happen. In the same way, it can never be proven that the poor standards of dancing in club-goers doesn't lead to a reduction in the quality of residential architecture. It's very easy to demonstrate that two phenomena are statistically related. Demonstrating a causal link between the two is much more difficult.

[Bill Brasky]

I want to get a grant that pays me to play video games all day long to see if I become more violent. Screw you taxpayer!

[ninjarabbit]

Sounds like Hillary is going after the soccer mom vote again..... except she forgets that over half of all gamers are 18 and older. Besides hasn't violent crime in the US gone down in the last decade or so and that's with stuff like Doom and Mortal Kombat being our killing simulators.

[dwh]

My two all time favorite "studies" are as follows--

1)A study was done to see just how long it takes ketchup to ooze down an incline/ramp.

2)A 12 year study on cancer that came to the conclusion that cancer is caused by cells that do not function correctly-duh!

As for violence, I just read today of a gangland shoot-out in Sacramento,CA in a major trafic signal intersection.None of the gang members were shot but a woman sitting at the light had all three of her kids shot(they are still alive though).What we need to do to get rid of these gangbangers is send them to a shooting range so maybe they could kill eachother and not innocent bystanders.All three kids that got shot probably have played vidio games, I'm sure according to people like Hillary, thats why they got shot.

[rockman_x_2002]

You forgot to mention the study they did on how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop.

 

No need for a study. It's 42.

 

As for this study, it's not a question of whether violent video games influence kids.

What determines that is simply this: do the parents care what their kids are doing? Or not?

 

Pure and simple.

[Cheese007]

Jack Thompson is surely going to have a field day with the results, because with people like Hilary backing the study there is no way it can't turn out in his favor.

[Mindfield]

I'm going to apply for a grant in order to perform an empirical study on the reasons why Hillary Clinton is a moronic cunt. That ought to be good for decades worth of study money.

[MetroidsAteMyAtari]

You forgot to mention the study they did on how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop.

 

No need for a study. It's 42.

 

As for this study, it's not a question of whether violent video games influence kids.

What determines that is simply this: do the parents care what their kids are doing? Or not?

 

Pure and simple.

 

i got 59....course i do have a tongue ring....i will take it out and try again.

[NovaXpress]

i got 59....course i do have a tongue ring....i will take it out and try again.

That reminds me, I have a date tonight.

[shadow460]

i got 59....course i do have a tongue ring....i will take it out and try again.

That reminds me, I have a date tonight.

 

That's tackier that the chewy center of the tootsie pop.

 

Let's ban all non violent video games, shall we? Sorry, Super Mario, but you gotta go. Maybe if we start filling Chuck E Cheese's with Unreal Tournament and Killer Instinct, we'll see the true effects of violent video games on our kids.

We can start them off with a hack--Oscar's Toxic Genocide Race.

[NovaXpress]

That's tackier that the chewy center of the tootsie pop.

Can I quote you on my resume?