Do video games encourage violence?
The answer is quite unclear; no one really knows the effect of videogames on people. Texas A&M International University’s Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson claims that 90- 95% of studies that try to link violent videogames with aggression are false. “The sad answer is it’s really hard to measure aggression in the lab. We really don’t have any real good measures of aggression,” Ferguson said. “We can’t have kids knifing each other or punching or beating each other up, of course. So we have that ethical constraint on one hand, and is it possible to create an aggression measure that functions well and is valid? I haven’t seen one yet” However, there have been numerous attempts by the media to link violence to videogames, which have been faulty in one way or another, but damaged the image of violent videogames. In 2007, Fox News brought Dr. Susan Bartell on air to talk about how videogames cause people to behave violently. She ranted, “When kids play violent video games, we can see that their br
