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Originally Posted by Christmas treeza
I would be interested to see those.
I don't think I'm the first person to pose this theory no, what a strange question.
Could you tell me why you think the assumption is prejudiced... do you consider gamers a marginalised group?
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Of course it's a form of prejudice; you aren't seeing statistics or figures that show an increase in certain behaviours associated with video games... You've heard "people say" that there is a link and then trying to find stats and figures to back up that opinion after its formed.
And no, at this point, I would say that gamers (people who video game to at least some degree) are actually fairly mainstream - however - 15 / 20 years ago gamers certainly WERE a marginalised - and occasionally mocked - group. And there was a period of time where the (unproven, and still unproven / debunked) claims about violence and video games were constant tabloid fodder. We seemed to have moved on from that in the last decade and even to be "getting there" in terms of gaming being considered as legitimate a form of adult cultural expression as film / music / television so yes... It's exceptionally frustrating when people - usually older people who had no experience of gaming then and have no more now - start hauling out those same old dusty arguments for another whirl.
If Esther wants to conduct a study and DEMONSTRATE to me that there are problematic psychological effects stemming from video games then I'm more than willing to examine those claims and think about what might be going on. While her evidence remains "because I just
think it probably does..." it's nothing more than, in my eyes, an outdated and unfounded opinion.