[{"id":130,"title":"Violent Computer Games / Movies as Triggers for Violent Real Life Crimes: Is Comparative Post-Crime Influence Research Useful?","sha":"07ecda1a4916b4787999343322857743","user_id":391,"state":"published","body":"The question if violent computer games lead to more violence in real life has long been controversial. While it seems clear that some perpetrators are influenced by what they have seen on tv or in computer games, the vast majority of gamers does not commit crimes. It is therefore necessary to understand mechanisms of game-influence on those who actually commit violent crimes. \r\nPredisposition to use violence and the legal and factual accessibility of weapons, in particular firearms (these would be separate issues worth of investigation), being equal: are violent computer games more likely to impact players’ real life-behavior if the weapons and mode of violent in game-behavior is unlikely to be realized in real life? In other words: are more realistic computer games more likely to lead to real life-violence? \r\nSuch research could be undertaken by looking at pre-crime gaming behavior of violent offenders in different jurisdictions (different weapons laws) but also different factual circumstances regarding access to firearms. This will require a global outlook but could help law enforcement and the computer gaming industry to better understand the impact of computer games. Parallel studies should be undertaken with regard to violent movies etc.","created_at":"2015-03-26T05:48:21.963Z","updated_at":"2015-03-27T06:00:34.151Z","zenodo_id":25715,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16373","subject":null,"tags":["computer games","movies","crimes","firearms","weapons","crime","law","behavior","real life","influence"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":271,"title":"Awards specifically to free educational software that has proven to be effective in randomized field experiments involving a large number of schools.","sha":"4e060ddc3bdf00f0b6d110734bc64757","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Ben Goldacre described randomized field experiments as following: \"\"Randomised trials are our best way to find out if something works: by randomly assigning participants to one intervention or another, and measuring the outcome we're interested in, we exclude all alternative explanations for any difference between the two groups. If you don't know which of two reasonable interventions is best, and you want to find out, a trial will tell you.\" Randomized controlled trials are the gold-standard of evidence in evidence-based education and medicine.\r\nAwards should be routinely given to free educational software that has proven to significantly improve objectively measurable educational outcomes in large, randomized field experiments.\r\nEducational institutions should make it reasonably easy for software developers to test their educational software in randomized field experiments in real classrooms. Educational software that proves to be effective in rigorous evaluations should be awarded, and educational software that doesn't work should have to pay compensation to the schools where the testing took place. ","created_at":"2016-01-06T03:31:55.798Z","updated_at":"2016-01-21T17:13:19.673Z","zenodo_id":92525,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.44459","subject":null,"tags":["education","evidence","public policy","gamification","computer games"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]