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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 4911555" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>I understand your perspective but I think you are being a bit selective about who gets eliminated from your overall picture and it is skewing what you view as the results.  You set aside "the occasional kids who do nothing but play video games (. . .)" and only include those that are "not going to sports or cub scouts or piano practice after school" which has the effect of steering toward the results you have predetermined as what you desire to predict.  To take a different tack in what I am saying, let's agree to set aside young people who mostly are "not going to sports or cub scouts or piano practice after school" even though it may well be that those same young people might predominately use some of their free time to either read or play video games.  Let's also understand that a certain amount of reading is going to be mandated as necessary for school, whereas this is not true of video gaming.  I'm not even asking that we set aside the time spent on mandated reading as not to be included in our factoring.  I am, however, asking you to agree that if any single person has five free hours in a day to spend on any activity they wish, one who chooses to spend those full five hours on reading and not playing any video games, is going to be spending more time reading than a single individual who spends three hours reading and two hours video gaming.  Further, I am asking that you agree that one who spends five hours video gaming only, will be reading less than one who spends three hours video gaming and two hours reading.  Do you follow me in regard to how throwing out some of the data points skews the results toward your desired outcome?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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