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Originally Posted by safisher
From the report:
"However, ethical constraints in exposing participants, especially children and teens, to harmful stimuli, difficulty in controlling exposure due to the widespread nature of modern media, difficulty offering meaningful levels of exposure in laboratory settings, and the ever-present challenge of obtaining large samples limit the feasibility of randomized clinical trials in this domain. Given the ethical and pragmatic realities, it is unlikely that it will be possible to conduct definitive studies that can establish causality. This is similar to the limitations on other research addressing violence and abuse as well as other harmful behaviors such as smoking tobacco. Moreover, randomly controlled trials may suffer from limitations such as selection bias. We must, therefore, ask what we might expect and find useful for inferring causality. ___>Convergence of results across multiple methods, multiple samples, and multiple researchers, creating a collective body of scientific inquiry yielding similar results, is an accepted method for inferring causality in behavioral science<____."
Huh.
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The cancer statistics track very closely with smoking.
But maybe we should just report this thread for promoting violence and leading to the fall of civilization. It apparently isn't ever going back on topic.