Guest FoxNews.com Posted January 26, 2017 Posted January 26, 2017 A controversial study about video games and guns titled in part “Boom, Headshot!” has been pulled because of issues with the original data, the website Retraction Watch reported recently. The now-retracted study argued that training with a violent video game can actually make people better at shooting with a real gun. The study, published in 2012, involved 151 participants who played different video games. One of those games had “humanoid targets” and “rewarded headshots,” according to a version of the study that’s still online. The upshot? People who had played the violent game with a controller that was shaped like a pistol subsequently did better when asked to shoot “a realistic gun at a mannequin.” Continue reading... Trending right now: iPhone 7 Plus vs Google Pixel ‘bokeh’ shootout isn’t even close These are our favorite cases for the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge T-Mobile employees share horror stories of lies and bill cramming in ‘wild outlaw’ stores Via BRG - Boy Genius Report
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