Bad Data Analysis and Psychology's Replication Crisis
This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research.
Christopher J. Ferguson
Psychologist and author known for research debunking links between media violence and real-world aggression.
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Sexualization in Gaming: Advocacy and Over-Correction
Given the rapidly changing gamer demographic, it was perhaps inevitable that games would eventually come in for criticism for under-representing playable female characters, and for presenting them as hyper-sexualized images when they were available.
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science
The bottom line is that professional guilds such as the APA and AAP have a demonstrable track record of unreliability when speaking on matters of science.