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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 509276" data-attributes="member: 633">If I were in you, I would demand that the AP gives me references for the &quot;research&quot; that shows D&amp;D as potentially harmful (hey, at least she didn't claim it is the Tool of the Devil). There are few... ahem... &quot;famous&quot; (=notorious) pieces of... uhm... &quot;literature&quot; that argue this, such as Pulling's stuff, and that have been thoroughly debunked. If her research is one of those, you can get a solid debunking and hand it to her superior. Always remember to stay cool.If you aren't that lucky, you can just use the link above and overwhelm her documents with 10 times that amount of proof that RPGs are harmless or beneficial. Send the whole bunch to her superior. Make sure to only choose the most rational and scientific-looking documents. Some of them are available online; print them out. Give references for the rest.If she just refuses to produce her &quot;research&quot;, I would just get to her superior and explain the situation. I hope that anyone in charge of a school can at least have the brains to recognize that claiming &quot;research says so&quot; without references is worthless.That's what I would do. I mean, you are right and you can produce megabytes of real research to prove it. Unless this AP is really mad at roleplaying, she probably doesn't have anything beyond a tabloid article and can't produce anything more. You just have to play your cards right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 509276, member: 633"] If I were in you, I would demand that the AP gives me references for the "research" that shows D&D as potentially harmful (hey, at least she didn't claim it is the Tool of the Devil). There are few... ahem... "famous" (=notorious) pieces of... uhm... "literature" that argue this, such as Pulling's stuff, and that have been thoroughly debunked. If her research is one of those, you can get a solid debunking and hand it to her superior. Always remember to stay cool. If you aren't that lucky, you can just use the link above and overwhelm her documents with 10 times that amount of proof that RPGs are harmless or beneficial. Send the whole bunch to her superior. Make sure to only choose the most rational and scientific-looking documents. Some of them are available online; print them out. Give references for the rest. If she just refuses to produce her "research", I would just get to her superior and explain the situation. I hope that anyone in charge of a school can at least have the brains to recognize that claiming "research says so" without references is worthless. That's what I would do. I mean, you are right and you can produce megabytes of real research to prove it. Unless this AP is [i]really[/i] mad at roleplaying, she probably doesn't have anything beyond a tabloid article and can't produce anything more. You just have to play your cards right. [/QUOTE]

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