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Do you believe exposure to violent video games makes people more likely to cause violence to others in real life?

Yes
16.5%
No
83.5%

8,666 votesFinal results

4:29 PM · Apr 8, 2022

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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P.

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The Impact of Electronic Media Violence: Scientific Theory and Research

Since the early 1960s research evidence has been accumulating that suggests that exposure to violence in television, movies, video games, cell phones, and on the internet increases the risk of...

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A more comprehensive meta-analysis shows virtually zero influence of media violence on real-life violence... plus it shows a pervasive problem of publication bias among researchers trying to show that media violence is bad.

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The Public Health Risks of Media Violence: A Meta-Analytic Review

To conduct a meta-analytic review of studies that examine the impact of violent media on aggressive behavior and to determine whether this effect coul…

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One thing I do know is playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour on the PlayStation did sod all for my golfing ability.

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The desire to have sex is what drives people to watch pornography. The desire to murder is not what drives people to play video games. Your analogy does not hold up because the inciting motivation of people engaging with pornography is different from the motivations to play games

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It is not a question of belief, there are studies

@JudiciaIreview

Apr 9, 2022

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For most people no, for some people, it seems plausible.

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iirc there was a study that showed ppl will be so busy playing video games that they don't have as much time to do violence irl

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I wonder how much the answers to this type of question correlate to the age of the respondent? I don't think it is remotely relevant for what you're doing with this series of polls, but I've often wondered about that.

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That's way different than designing and flooding the internet with AI enhanced child abuse imagery. Nuance is needed in society; not all sensitive topics can be treated the same.

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Video games and violence vs normalisation of violence in sexuality have been proven time and time again to be completely different and the reinforcement mechanisms in the brain are completely different. This is a fucking ridiculous poll that does not do what you think it does.