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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 3:55am

   
   

   Niiiiice

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 5:33am

   
   

   im not going to argue on the point of internet addiction, but i like the fact that it wasn't blamed on the internet since they recognize the coloration and accept the fact that it could be the other way around.

    

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   Jesse, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 7:24am

   
   

   If someone devoted all their time to a sports team we would be congratulating them rather than knocking them. They would probably be fairly aggressive too. But pick something that varies from the norm and all of a sudden it is an illness.

    

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   Sat-chan, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 9:06am

   
   

   It's amazing that there's a study on this. Do these researchers know what's on the internet? Perhaps they should see what websites those 'addicted' people are on.

    

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   Gene Cavanaugh, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 9:11am

   
   

   Internet kids being aggressive

   I agree, Carlo. In fact, having had a "difficult" teen years experience, I can say that while we didn't have the Internet then, any sort of outlet, while it often resulted in more aggression in the short term, relieved the pressure somewhat, like a teapot whistling instead of blowing up.
   
   I am pretty sure that, had I not had opportunities to "act up" in an aggressive way, there would have been an eventual explosion, which would have been a lot more unpleasant than the "acting up", bad as it was!

    

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   AnotherHappyTechDirtReader, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 10:04am

   
   

   Causation Without Corrleation

   This always kills me...I've even seen our senate members paly this same game. Many things can be correlated. However, correlation without causation is meaningless.
   
   My favorite example from a mentor of mine...hope he doesn't mind:
   
   The data can show that the number of shark attacks increases with the number of ice cream sales. The solution to the shark problem...ban ice cream.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 7:05am

   
   

   Violence prone teenage boys

   are frankly the result of nature, not technology. I cant speak to girls, cause I never was a teenage girl, but I do know that for boys there is a hormonal period in the late teens to early twenties when they are just quick to anger and full of energy (and frankly just more prone to violence). I would suspect this was as true in the cave as it is in the subburbs.

    

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