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Let's say 1 million people bought the last Black Ops game, and that our Connecticut shooter was such a player. So far, 3 months in, we've had 1 mass shooting.
by sageikosa 14y ago
Let's say 1 million people bought the last Black Ops game, and that our Connecticut shooter was such a player. So far, 3 months in, we've had 1 mass shooting. Correlation ~ 1/1000000 = 0.00001% at 3 months in. Let's assume we're off by a factor of 100 in our violent video-game audience. That would require 100x the number of shootings to even match parity.
- teamonkey 14y agoBlack Ops 2 has sold about 22m copies to date.
- sageikosa 14y agoI'm swagging a factorization of a reasonable pool of "violent" video game players. In any case, if you just picked Black Ops II, for there to be a 1% correlation, there'd have to be 220 thousand mass shootings from players (without any from non players) to get such a correlation. Of course, even then, we'd probably assume some other co-factor, since the ratio of players to shooters is so low.