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Me personally, I think it's too late. There's a whole bunch of people that have already figured out the truth, and won't have much of a problem explaining that the UN was seeking the question instead of the answer. Considering confirmation bias was a parent, they have lost all credibility with the rest of the public.

>>283722

Confirmation bias is usually used to describe the unconscious bias people have that leads them to find more supporting evidence, its actually human nature and part of being a good scientist is learning how to beat it, usually by designing criteria and tests to eliminate the human component to gathering data. Designing fair tests isn't easy, which is why the social sciences are full of shitty research. The sort of scientist that want to learn about how humans interact aren't clever or autistic enough to do a real science like chemistry or physics.

Cherry picking is when you choose your evidence to support your case rather that collecting the evidence then drawing the conclusion from it.

I think UNwomen have humiliated themselves enough with the report that it doesn't matter what they do to it now nobody will be able to take it seriously. Hilariously, I could probably draft a better report complete with citation in a week that would be sophistic, because this subject matter is always going to be sophistic, but it would at least have citations that worked and lead to peer review journals and would be well worded and less meme worthy.

The UN is huge.

If you think it's left wing, look at UNODC whinging about legal pot in Colorado.

No one takes them seriously. They are like the League of Nations now, as we are on the brink of WWIII.

>>283859

http://www.theesa.com/article/esa-criticizes-united-nations-flawed-video-game-research/

>>283745

So it's cherrypicking then, which's a lot more indicative of bad faith than confirmation bias.

I wonder what the new report will cite and how the new cherrypicking will be done.

Also, as Auerbach noted, it's interesting that they considered that level of screw up salvageable, not veto worthy. What would be vetoed by the UN under these lowest as possible research standards?

>>283877

>So it's cherrypicking then, which's a lot more indicative of bad faith than confirmation bias

There is an element of confirmation bias taking place, they believe themselves to be in the right due to all the "evidence" they've witnessed but when it comes down to writing a report, "Men are meanies" won't suffice as evidence, then the cherry picking begins.

>I wonder what the new report will cite and how the new cherrypicking will be done.

Well there's plenty of studies showing media has an effect on your behaviour, it does this by "priming" which is when you set the audience's mood by use of putting particular emotionally loaded words, but they aren't the focus of the task.

For example, pick the 2 syllable words out of the following groups;

gardening, latte, slow, touch

lethargic, chair, basement, flammable

forgotten, sideways, bacteria, sluggishness

mightiest, honorary, idle, lime

You, until you forget, should now be moving slower than you would normally. This effect isn't limited to slowness and can be used to make people more or less patient, better at learning and better at working in group. What it does is effects your mood and that effects how you think and act.

"Priming" can't make you do anything you wouldn't do anyway so for most people you couldn't "prime" them to carry out nintendo-style killing.

>Also, as Auerbach noted, it's interesting that they considered that level of screw up salvageable

I would guess its going to review limbo, UNwomen don't want to admit the report was absolute garbage tier feminist cuck porn.

https://archive.is/hQrs2

The cyberviolence report was outsourced to https://archive.is/Ja32h

>>283859

This is why I wrote emails to the ESA, and encouraged others to do the same. They may stay silent on most shit, but when there is a looming threat of governments stepping in to censor/ban/regulate video games, they damn well have to take action.

>>284096

I think this ought to get it's own Op.

A couple things on this have been posted…

This article by Brad Glasgow earlier today. The biggest surprise of it? It's on motherboard, Vice.

https://archive.is/sVG61

Ars Technica ran an article earlier too.

https://archive.is/aWc9v

And here I was thinking nobody in the UN gave a shit about that report (hence the sources). But it looks like someone at the UN squeezed that thing out thinking nobody was going to look at the sources

>>284115

>This article by Brad Glasgow earlier today. The biggest surprise of it? It's on motherboard, Vice.

Biggest surprise? Have read that anon?

They are saying the problem is a problem of "footnotes".

They make it seem as if factual sources to what they affirm is just a detail.

>>283722

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy-based_evidence_making

Yes, the irony of posting a Wikipedia link is not lost.

>"Policy-based evidence making" is a pejorative term which refers to the commissioning of research in order to support a policy which has already been decided upon. The name has been suggested as a corollary to evidence-based policy making.

>As the name suggests, policy-based evidence making means working back from a predefined policy to produce underpinning evidence. Working from a conclusion to provide only supporting evidence is an approach which contradicts most interpretations of the scientific method; however, it should be distinguished from research into the effects of a policy where such research may provide either supporting or opposing evidence.

>>283907

You also just described push-polling.

Side note to Canadafags: once had a revealing conversation with Darryl Bricker of Ipsos where he admitted to doing this for Conservatives. Nanos and Graves are probably the most ethical pollsters, just ignore anything coming out of Ipsos.

Sauce: used to work there years ago

>>283722

>removed for revision

that's a funny way of saying "we're tired of being laughed at"

I'll tell you what, I'm kinda disappointed. The UN was supposed to be the next big boss, but we just breezed through it.

So, keeping with the vidya metaphor, was it just a "joke" one-hit KO boss, or did we, as a community level up so hard that he didn't stand a chance?

>>284214

We've been grinding for a year on shitty enemies so when a boss showed up we just one shot him.

>>284220

But we have super boss TPP about to deliver it's super attack

sage for off topic

>>284231

>we overstretched

They're not even trying to hide it anymore

>>283877

World War III.

Took a World War to get the last circlejerk of morons tossed. They'll probably call the next one Socially Progressive Inclusive Nations and fail as bad.

>>284231

>sources link to C: drive

Computer experts, software engineers…

>>284257

>credited authors explicitly divorced from report

No one seems to want to have any part in it publicly.

>>283924

the african people in the website surely show they know shit about technology

>>283924

I notice the pictures they use to illustrate 'consultancy' show a bunch of women sat around a table covered in what appear to be childrens drawings.

>>284231

David, please ask them what exactly did they overstretch, why did they overstretch and what do they mean by overstretching.

Being "nebulous" (using SJW rhetoric here against themselves) is a way to simply evade the criticism according to SJWs themselves.

Also: If their focus is on republishing "asap", does that mean an admission that evidence is unimportant to the conclusions of the report? An admission of >>284170

>>283722

>>287473

Actually, that made me wonder. Anyone knows of any studies (maybe some ESA ones) pointing out which demographic spends more with microtransactions, male or female?

>>287473

That game looks like shit on toast. The fact they're trying to make it more appealing to COD fans but releasing it 2 weeks after BO3 is suspiciously retarded.