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- BarryChuckle, on 04/07/2008, -0/+361If this trend continues, Crime might be non-existent by the time Nukem Forever is released...
- rye425, on 04/07/2008, -3/+181Yeaah, cant wait until GTA IV...I can feel good that I'm lowering crimes while I shoot my prostitute to get my money back.
- eladriano, on 04/07/2008, -0/+106Someone mail this to old Jack T.
- Chazx, on 04/07/2008, -0/+90http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/viortrd ...
- duggdowncatisad, on 04/07/2008, -4/+81Correlation != causation
- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -6/+80So stunning and beautiful. It's like a piece of art...
- Bukowsky, on 04/07/2008, -0/+63wow... I'm just surprised that the crime rate dropped so much during that timespan.
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -0/+50the awkward transition from 16-bit to 32-bit consoles is what caused crime to rise again during the mid 1990s
- TomK88, on 04/07/2008, -7/+50I'll never understand why some parents and legislators want to shield children from video games, movies, and other forms of media. The thing that irks me the most isn't even the violence. It's sex. What is so wrong about somebody under 18 seeing a breast or two people engaged in a sex act? How can you justify that? A huge percentage of kids have lost their V-cards by that time anyway. Pretending that violence, sex, or whatever else doesn't exist is just idiotic.
- Akaji, on 04/07/2008, -1/+42I wonder if they'll have assassination moves? It'd be nice to be able to strangle them silently then put them in a dumpster so that the cops don't find out. Just like real life.
... err, I mean... - gwellington, on 04/07/2008, -1/+37http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5825/84085750wn6. ...
Happy? - screwthename, on 04/07/2008, -0/+35I played vice city so much that I'm so tired of being a criminal anymore
- KingGorilla, on 04/07/2008, -0/+34***** asymptotes
- R0l0, on 04/07/2008, -1/+31Al Gore invented the internet.
- logandurand, on 04/07/2008, -3/+31The chart probably is intended to refute the "games == violence" claim, not promote the "games == less violence" argument. To claim that would be a stretch.
- VinnieDaMac, on 04/07/2008, -0/+26[Insert graph comparing obesity vs. violence] As you can see here, as people get fatter, violence decreases.
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -3/+29Freakonomics said it was Roe vs. Wade. Good book, go read it.
- bosssmiley, on 04/07/2008, -0/+25Dugg for the image of an angry drunken mathematician slamming his empty glass down on the bar and growling that line
- deuceswilde, on 04/07/2008, -1/+22First off, Freakonomics proposed that and provided other evidence to back it up, but nothing like that can be proven and nothing can be attributed "solely" to a factor using regression analysis. There have been a number of theories on the drop, no one expected it and no one knows for sure. Another one with some solid evidence behind it is that when gas became unleaded the environmental levels of lead dropped significantly, and people with higher than normal concentrations of lead in their bodies tend to have a higher probability of being criminals. Again, nothing that can be absolutely proven but interesting nonetheless.
- m0shen, on 04/07/2008, -2/+20Yes, it did deal with abortion. The mid nineties is when all of those unwanted children would have started to grow up and do what a very high percentage of unwanted children do... commit crime. He makes a very good case for causation and correlation. You should really read it.
- jmpeagle, on 04/07/2008, -1/+18those most likely to commit crimes are of the age group that were being adolescents and young adults 20 years after Roe v. wade
if you reduce the number of at risk households with drug problems and impoverished having children then you reduce the future rate of violence - inactive, on 04/07/2008, -0/+16If sex in video games has the same effect on sex as it's had on violence according to this chart, I definitely don't want it in video games.
- feoren, on 04/07/2008, -1/+16The point isn't that violent games cause less violence. The point is that they obviously don't cause more.
- jmpeagle, on 04/07/2008, -5/+19the effects of legal abortion achieved 21 years earlier were effecting the make up of the young adult population which is the part of the population most likely to commit crimes
this combined with the huge demographic change as the avereage age of an American has slowly been increasing will decrease the number of violent offenders per American citizen - swicken, on 04/07/2008, -0/+14I'm pretty sure that I just saved a whole bunch of money by switching to geico!
- Spuy767, on 04/07/2008, -0/+14Looks like the 30+ states enacting concealed carry laws over the last three decades have really made violent crime skyrocket. I mean, seriously, with everything that the nanny-state pandering politicians tell us is hurting society, every form of crime is at it owest point in 35 years.
- alexpigment, on 04/07/2008, -3/+16not as good as the porno vs. rape chart, but whatever
- SeventhSon, on 04/07/2008, -1/+14Bungie released Marathon?
FFVI?
Playstation?
The Channel Tunnel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994 ? - l0k0, on 04/07/2008, -0/+13Don't forget the flowers.
- MJDub, on 04/07/2008, -0/+12So crime will go away 2 weeks after the earth is swallowed by the sun.
- AwesomeMonster, on 04/07/2008, -2/+14Doom is also the best damn game on that list. I'm sure the reason crime was so high was that people were wary about the oncoming hell invasion.
- Kardall, on 04/07/2008, -1/+12I lol'd IRL
- bigdoof, on 04/07/2008, -1/+12In other news, global average temperature is inversely proportional of the number of pirates.
- wtfunkymonkey, on 04/07/2008, -0/+11a rick roll would have been better
- AdamTReineke, on 04/07/2008, -0/+11No, crime went down because more people are inside playing games. Fewer nerds out and about for crooks to pick on. ;-)
- dentakukatateni, on 04/07/2008, -3/+14Read Freakanomics: the drop in the crimerate during the nineties can be solely attributed to the legalization of abortus in the sixties and seventies, which prevented a lot of 'unwanted' problemchildren (ie children of drugusers, alcoholists) to be born.
- Akaji, on 04/07/2008, -1/+12Thanks for explaining, I see it now... I may have to check it out.
- iamtehwinnerz, on 04/07/2008, -9/+19It's a little biased seeing that the graph starts at 20.
- travis1982, on 04/07/2008, -0/+10I am from Canada, I take criminal law and theory. Canada and the US have had the exact same crime trends, obviously we don't have it in proportion to you guys, but it generally follows the same trend of highs and lows. That would indicate that the change in either legal systems are irrelevant seeing that we both have very different legal systems. Its thought that its the times we are in, oddly enough. People are getting smarter, better educations, not as much poverty and so on.
- TobiasParker, on 04/07/2008, -1/+11dugg for V-Cards.
- Asianwaste, on 04/07/2008, -0/+10All of the people who would normally be going outside resorting to violence as an alternative to looking for something to do are now staying inside at home playing violent videogames.
I started typing this as a smart ass joke... but when I really think about it... it almost makes too much damn sense. - negativenancy, on 04/07/2008, -0/+9Grandpa Jack loves letters!
- FaithclubDotNet, on 04/07/2008, -0/+9That chart. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
- ralphthemagi, on 04/07/2008, -2/+11"Well well well, care to retort?"
Look, I'm not one who believes in a meaningful correlation between video games and violence but that's one of the worst attempt at regression analysis I've ever seen.
Even this is better: http://www.venganza.org/piratesarecool4.gif - Ninjapope, on 04/07/2008, -0/+8This is not the chart you are looking for.
- pradaaddict, on 04/07/2008, -0/+8stole the words right out of my mouth,
- retzed, on 04/07/2008, -1/+9Nothing like GTA to satisfy your evil anger
- Hotrod89, on 04/07/2008, -1/+9I'm pretty sure it's not as high as 99.9%
- handstrongpimp, on 04/07/2008, -0/+8sir, where is the control experiment?
- thailand1972, on 04/07/2008, -0/+8It's not the games that are reducing crime. Look at the year numbers. They increase, while crime decreases. Just make sure the year numbers keep going up and we'll be alright.
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