However, Dr. Christopher Ferguson in 2007, found cause to suspect the results of Anderson and Dill’s study.

“Anderson and Dill claim to offer causal evidence for the video game-aggression link. However a close read of their article suggests otherwise. The authors use four separate measures of aggression provided by a “noise blast” program (which punishes players with an irritating white noise) and find significance for only one of the four. Had the authors examined the confidence intervals around the effect size for these findings they would have found that such a confidence interval crosses zero and thus should not be considered “proof” of a positive finding.” Ferguson, 2007

He found that the Anderson and Dill study to be misleading! Ferguson also points out that the noise blast program that was used was nonstandard and therefore could have affected the outcome of the study’s findings. Ferguson, along with colleagues, conducted a similar experiment to that of Anderson and Dill, using a “standardized and reliable version of the noise blast program [and] found no relationship between violent game exposure and aggression.” Ferguson, 2007

Can it be concluded that a universal pastime foresees such an infrequent behaviour, the extreme being school shootings? Studies have shown as much as 98.7% of teens play video games, that’s a significant number. If an adolescent steals, gets into fights, murders, or gets bad grades, chances are highly likely that they also play video games, but does that create a cause and effect relationship? What about all the honour roll students, volunteers and responsible adolescences who play the same games, is there a correlation then? In my opinion, video games can’t be correlated to extreme behaviours and shouldn’t be used to placate victims of abnormal tragedies. It’s an insult to victims and gamers alike.
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