Men, video games and statistics

Around 7am today when I entered the second buss I need to take to get to work I picked up a copy of the free newspaper Metro that was laying on the seat next to the one I decided to occupy.
Casually I started flipping around in it reading the odd article or two, nothing really interesting most of them was just about the recent election and just as I decided that nothing fun nor interesting had happened in the world today and was going to close the paper up and put it away this one article caught my eye.
Violent games makes you violent
As gaming is something I do I decide to read it.
It starts like this;
"Violent games does not only enhance your decision making capability. A new study shows that men who play violent games and continue to think about them become more violent."
First thought the pops into my mind is this, Only men? But I let that be for the time and read on.
The article is about an American study where half a group of guys played Guitar Hero for 20 minutes and the other half Mortal Kombat for the same amount of time. They were then to for the entire day think of ways to improve their way of playing the game, in other words the GH guys were to think how to hit more notes and the MK guys how to rip someones spine out better.
This is what the study came up with;
If you concentrate to think of how to play a game where you beat someone to death with their own head you will think more aggressively then if you think of playing the guitar...
No joke, thats what the study figured out.


LOGIC!


Of bloody coarse you will have more aggressive thoughts if you think of brutally murdering someone for an entire day! Any sensible person could have told them that.
However that does not mean the person in question WILL become more violent or suddenly start to commit more violent actions and if you can not tell the difference between the game world and the real world you should NOT be playing games in the first place.


So in the end the study came up with that if you think violent thoughts you will think more violent thoughts then if you did not think violent thoughts. Then they pulled it off as Video games WILL make you more violent.




Mark Twain said that there are three kinds of lies in the wolds;
Lies, 
damned lies, 
and statistics.


And its clear where this study fits in.


Mark Twain, 1 - American Studies, 0








But the real question remains, as this study only applied to men;
When females think violent thoughts, will their thoughts be more violent then if they did not think violent thoughts?
Or are their thoughts always equally violent?


I guess we wont know until another study comes out.