Can video games help me or harm me?
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Is It the Video Games That Are Driving the Aggressive Behavior?
There are studies like this too. And they observe, like, large groups of people and see whether people that play violent games are more likely to be aggressive. But with these studies, you can only show a correlation, not a causation, and that's really important. So you can't say that people are aggressive because they play these games. More aggressive people might just prefer more violent games. Even there, there could be another factor that's driving both of those things. Perhaps some people with difficult home lives are morelikely to turn to violent video games to cope. That's one thing, but two, they're also likely to act out aggressively in school. Ok? In that case,
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