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  • New study: Games make you tired, not angry

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #119876  by Zeus
 Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:24 pm
Check out the revelation in the last sentence

Zeus doesn't know how to use the URL tag <--- nor does Zeus give a shit

Way to go, Einsteins. It's a good thing you told us that otherwise we'd never know. God I hate piss-poor pysch/sociology studies. Having a Psych minor I unfortunately ran across far too many.

Let's see Fox News pick up on this story with the headline "World of Warcraft is an insomnia cure"
Last edited by Zeus on Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

 #119879  by Kupek
 Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:49 pm
If people didn't perform experiments with supposed "obvious" outcomes, we'd never discover new things.

 #119880  by Zeus
 Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:08 pm
Kupek wrote:If people didn't perform experiments with supposed "obvious" outcomes, we'd never discover new things.
It's different when you create the experiment to give you the answer you're lookin' for, when you don't really leave the possibility of an alternative. I ran across so many psych studies where they, say, gather a bunch of beer drinkers, put them in a room with 3 kegs, they say "drinking beer makes you drunk" as their conclusion (not exactly, but you get the idea).

To me, that last sentence "well, it depends on your personality" is a way of saying "our experiment really proved nothing 'cause we only included a certain type of person". Give me a real conclusion, break it down by personality type.

A study like that to me don't prove either jack or shit.

 #119884  by Kupek
 Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:59 pm
To me, it says "It's impossible to perfectly generalize with a study like this, but we still found a trend."

Also, long URLs cause a horizontal scroll bar, which I find obnoxious.