When Gaming Is Good for You - WSJ.com - 3 views
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Chris Dede on 09 Mar 12This type of research is very difficult to do - so without examining the actual research articles it is difficult to determine how valid these studies are
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Shane Tutwiler on 11 Mar 12The WSJ article makes strong causal claims based on observational studies. Classic confounding of correlation and causation. From what I could find of the Michigan-based research, for example, the "effect" of video game playing on behavior was a fixed-effect in a multiple regression analysis. It didn't (or shouldn't have) carried any causal implication. (Interestingly, the research also found that students with higher self-reported video game playing times over the school year also had lower GPAs...a finding conspicuously missing from the WSJ piece.)
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Chris Dede on 11 Mar 12Thanks, Shane!