Poll: Supernanny takes on video games.

[Marik2]

People said the same thing about comic books 50 years ago.

And then it moved on to Rock music. Each generation of parents blame violence on anything that's popular during the time.

 

[Warrior Irme]

I have never taken any of those shows seriously, but if I ever need a reminder I go and watch the South Park episode Tsszt or however they spell that one.

 

[wolf thing]

she is nit a scanitis there for her tests have no meening

 

[eelel]

What happened to reason? Why do most gamers seem to be the only ones left with logical thinking, and since when is football non-violent?

It is non violent in the sense that you don't actually try and kill some one.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Only a couple on the non-violent game side too means that that's not a viable conclusion. It'd be more viable to say that video games in general makes kids less polite, but that's ignoring the ones who did pick up the pens. It's faulty science all around.

 

[x0ny]

If I was on a tv show at a young age, I'd be a bit scared to move out of my chair, even if it was to help someone pick up a pen, it's not cuz I'm impolite, I just worry about getting into trouble, cuz some adults don't like kids running around and prefer them to be organized and still.

 

[DC_Josh]

I will probably get flamed harder than a rampaging tyranid for this but...

Younger minds are more susceptible to violence. As our dear Yahtzee once said "Talking about murder death explosions at school will win you friends, but at work will lose you them" or somthing to that effect. Add into the mix that these were young males, whom are probably a riot of testosterone already, I don't think anyone should be suprised at their reaction.

I understand also that these FPS games can really drain you which is why that maybe in that show, the violent game group did not act when the psychologist dropped the pencils in that experiment.

What the experiment doesn't show is if these violent zombie children have the nessercary social skills taught by the parents to curb their violent urges during the day.

Bottom line- If your not old enough to play a game, you don't get to play it. If you are upset with this decision, talk it out with your parents/guardians and see if a compromise can be agreed upon. It does work kiddies, it did for me.

 

[e2density]

SuperNanny is also SuperStupid.

 

[rokkolpo]

People said the same thing about comic books 50 years ago.

and that was after WW2.
which wasn't aggressive at all.

 

[khaimera]

I love the idea of football as a non-violent videogame. I'm thinking of American football though. What about the idea that competitiveness is negatively correlated with politeness.

 

[bladeofdarkness]

I don't know if any of you watch the show Supernanny (UK)
But today's episode (which has finished, catch it on 4oD if you're interested in watching it) Supernanny took part in an 'experiment' (I only caught the last few minutes, but got the gist of what they were doing) where she separated 20 boys. One half played a violent War game and the other half played a non-violent football game. After they played for a while, they were taken to a separate room individually to be interviewed. The interviewer purposely knocked some pens over to see how the children reacted. She wanted to see if the children who played the violent games were polite and kind enough to pick up the pens. None of them did, but a couple of the non-violent players did, so they concluded that playing violent war games influences children to be less polite.

thats retarded
thats like saying the following
hitler had a mustache
stalin had a mustache
saddam husain had a mustache
from this we can conclude that growing mustaches makes people more likely to become dictators

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

ANTI-COW RAGE POWERS ACTIVATE!!!
I would have to agree, the "experiment" is complete crap on a stick. There are way to many variables to begin with, and since when is football nonviolent?

 

[T-Bone24]

If this was a real experiment, there would have been a control group and a group that did both, maybe another group that did both in a different order. What conclusions can you draw if there's no control group?

 

[vacuumbrand]

20 participants is a fair amount but the type of test on the half who played violent games and the half who played non-violent-esque video games is ridiculous. The person performing the test purposely knocked the pens to the floor. The boys who didn't pick them up must've though that the person was crazy or something.

I played violent video games since the dawn of the Nintendo and I've been polite because my parents taught me to be polite. This experiment is invalid.

20 people is not NEARLY close to the size of a sample you would need to make this a widely-accepted "fact".

 

[flaming_squirrel]

That's not a woman, it's a man, baby!


A stupid, stupid man.

 

[DominicxD]

Did anyone notice that with the football playing kids that the man reached down to suggest that he was going to pick the pens up, whereas with the violent game kids he made no effort to pick up the pens, so the kids wouldn't know to pick the pens up.

Also her tests on the effect of violent video games show that the kids won't have a heart attack when watching the news and that they wont help some clumsy muppet.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I will probably get flamed harder than a rampaging tyranid for this but...

Younger minds are more susceptible to violence. As our dear Yahtzee once said "Talking about murder death explosions at school will win you friends, but at work will lose you them" or somthing to that effect. Add into the mix that these were young males, whom are probably a riot of testosterone already, I don't think anyone should be suprised at their reaction.

I understand also that these FPS games can really drain you which is why that maybe in that show, the violent game group did not act when the psychologist dropped the pencils in that experiment.

What the experiment doesn't show is if these violent zombie children have the nessercary social skills taught by the parents to curb their violent urges during the day.

Bottom line- If your not old enough to play a game, you don't get to play it. If you are upset with this decision, talk it out with your parents/guardians and see if a compromise can be agreed upon. It does work kiddies, it did for me.

AHH FLAME HIM AHH! HE IS NOT CONFORMING!

I agree with the Yahtzee quote, as you get older it's like, "Dude... we all play COD, we don't care you got a head shot."
The experiment would be different if they used females. Usually (but not always) females are the politer sex. It all comes with being 'lady-like.'
They shouldn't be exposing children that young to video games like that anyway, I'm sure there's a few parents writing in, using their angry pen of rage.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

I don't know if any of you watch the show Supernanny (UK)
But today's episode (which has finished, catch it on 4oD if you're interested in watching it) Supernanny took part in an 'experiment' (I only caught the last few minutes, but got the gist of what they were doing) where she separated 20 boys. One half played a violent War game and the other half played a non-violent football game. After they played for a while, they were taken to a separate room individually to be interviewed. The interviewer purposely knocked some pens over to see how the children reacted. She wanted to see if the children who played the violent games were polite and kind enough to pick up the pens. None of them did, but a couple of the non-violent players did, so they concluded that playing violent war games influences children to be less polite.
I just don't understand.

God if that's what passes for 'science' in these shows I'm glad I don't watch TV anymore.

I agree with you. Plus, the only science we need is on the escapist's articles by Admire.

Children are less polite if they're born less polite. Everyone grows up to be themself and not you, in my philosophy.