August 11, 2019

Liz Wheeler: 5 Stories The Media Refused To Cover This Week

Liz Wheeler is fantastic and is an absolute follow. This segment is also very informative. However, she is incorrect about violence and video games. She right that there was a Dartmouth study in 2018 showing a correlation with violent video games and aggression, however, if you read the study and not the study’s press release, it makes clear they can’t make a strong positive connection. The scientific community picked the Dartmouth study apart pretty convincingly. Here’s a piece on the problems with the study from Psychology Today. Here’s far more research highlighting there is no relationship with playing video games leading to violent behavior.

The rest of her piece is fantastic. My audience has heard me mention several of the stories she covers here:

 

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