"Witnessing Violence Can Trigger Violent Behavior"

[LiquidTension]

Determining a cause and effect relationship is much harder than these uh, *persons* would have you believe. To incontrovertibly prove that one thing causes another, ALL spurious variables must be accounted for. This study did not do that by a long shot.

Just one more example of "scientists" wanting to "prove" their opinion instead of determining the truth.

 

[Wiley]

Of the original 6000 studied, 122 were judged 'violent'. Thats a whopping 0.02033... percent.

Big whoop. More tax money wasted.

How many of you remember the Bobo doll study?

 

[c_yeager]

Of course the article is simply drawing unbased conclusions from what may have been a perfectly legitimate study.

Another way of looking at it is this: criminals tend to get shot more than anyone else. This is a conclusion that is ALSO supported by the same data. I.E. they are criminals in the first place, thus they get shot, and being criminals they eventually engage in their own violent behavior.

 

[Harry Tuttle]

Albert Bandura is most famous for the Bobo doll experiment. Albert Bandura believed that aggression must explain three aspects: First, how aggressive patterns of behavior are developed; second, what provokes people to behave aggressively, and third, what determines whether they are going to continue to resort to an aggressive behavior pattern on future occasions (Evans, 1989: p.22). In this experiment, he had children witness a model aggressively attacking a plastic clown called the Bobo doll. There children would watch a video where a model would aggressively hit a doll and " ‘...the model pummels it on the head with a mallet, hurls it down, sits on it and punches it on the nose repeatedly, kick it across the room, flings it in the air, and bombards it with balls...’(Bandura, 1973: p.72). After the video, the children were placed in a room with attractive toys, but they could not touch them. The process of retention had occurred. Therefore, the children became angry and frustrated. Then the children were led to another room where there were identical toys used in the Bobo video. The motivation phase was in occurrence. Bandura and many other researchers founded that 88% of the children imitated the aggressive behavior. Eight months later, 40% of the same children reproduce the violent behavior observed in the Bobo doll experiment

 

[Ky Larry]

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.