Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Mar 2009 09:33 UTC
Recently, I learned that there are two types of zombies. You have the undead ones, that have arisen from the grave, probably a little disappointed in the afterlife, and who come back to eat your brain (which indicates that the afterlife really must suck if it compares unfavourably to eating brains). Then there's the virus type of zombie, you know, from Resident Evil and 28 Days Later. Left 4 Dead sports the latter variety, but really, does anyone even care? Zombie mayhem!
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No they do not, that is a myth. We have yet to see a study proving cigarette smoking to lung cancer so that isn't saying much, but there has yet to be an empirical study showing significant behavioral changes.
When you look at everything using some meta-analyical techniques, you are able to find correlations to violent behavior, especially when you take studies around the more extreme games into account (stuff like GTA). What I was talking about with drinking water is that correlation and causation are two different things; you can say there is a correlation between violence and violent video game players, but that only means that violent people enjoy doing things depicting violence, not that violent video games cause violence.
I dont doubt that correlation, but I do consider the theory of causality that certain groups push as a black and white issue.