# Consequences of video games - and the cognitive aspects of data interpretation

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The post argues that claims about video-game effects depend on narrative and cognitive schemas used to interpret evidence about large groups.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 December 2005

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 14 December 2005
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: video-games, moral-panic, social-causality, cognition.

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