where do i find a neutral source that doesn't have a political point of view or religious point of view? How will i know if the source is reliable
Depends what you have access to. For me, I have immense access to research journals via numerous scientific databases so I can do my research papers, lab write-ups, etc... . You can also but I think you'll have to pay for the access, not sure how much though as I don't know how much is needed for me.
What you ideally want is called epidemiology, which is a branch of science whereby the data is collected through various methods. The data however isn't analyzed, and so it's a science of how to collect and the acts of collecting. For example, NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) has enormous amounts of data. For North America I'd imagine it'd be Statistics Canada, however, the research journals provide detailed analysis of the figures but you should learn some statistics first as they don't explain their methods usually, they just list them.
how is scripture subjective if someone believes it to be the truth? i know the definition of subjective maybe i don't understand the concept of the word.
You pretty much answered yourself: the belief of it being true or false is subjective as it relies only on your opinion.
nop i spent four hours finding just the canada statistics. i guess i am not a good researcher.
No problem, it can be sometimes difficult to find the data.
i don't keep up with this sort of stuff. do they play video games in japan or just produce them. not to say i havn't played video games just never took the time to know the games history.
Japan is one of the biggest manufacturers of video games, although the types of games that are permitted from Japan to North America vary. For example, they developed essentially a rape simulation video game, which North America bashed them for heavily. I'm not much of a gamer myself so I just know some basic ideas.
i had no idea that japan had a film industry.
Yep, very big one.
have you ever watched that gangs series on the history channel.
No, however, I have studied them both in sociology as a first-year course and forensic psychology as a third-year course.
one gang member was interview and glorified his actions as a video game. you are going to ask me which series i won't be able to tell you. i will wath the series over again and can tell you then. i had a friend buzz was his name that gathered all sorts of ideas from video games. you may not have the personality type to be influence by such things. Your personality type may not have your senses dull by seeing so much killing. But i would argue that there are personality types that would be influeced and senses dulled by such video games and movies. i knew a guy who wanted to be a serial killer after watching the movie seven.
Violent video games have come under immense scrutiny, such as a case where two kids (not sure on their ages but under 15 I think) kidnapped and killed a much younger child, and then stuffed large batteries into the kid and their claim was to re-enact Chucky. For forensic psychology, this influence is really hard to determine because there are numerous factors along with the video games. Research does suggest it can desensitize to a degree and it becomes what's called an estimator variable, which is a variable that is known to occur (desensitization) but the amount or affect it has is unknown and must be estimated. There are things such as the Gudjosson Suggestibility Scale (may have misspelled it) used in forensic psychology to assess how suggestible one is to something, and it shows that suggestibility has numerous variables (not necessarily estimator though) other than one's personality.
When it comes to violence, there's a branch of forensic psychology for risk assessment. It sounds easy but trust me, it isn't and it's not the same as criminal profiling. It's an area that has immense research because it's used by parole officers, police, etc... . I can write a lot on it here but I'll write very, very little because it's complex and because it may deserve its own thread or PM. But to summarize, various "scales" have to be used and each varies, such as the PCL-SV (screening for psychopathy, which I can explain at a later time as it has a ridiculous amount of misconceptions), Static-99, VRAG, ICT, etc... .
no you are right murder not crime rate so far i have seen that united states to be the highest. poland seems to have the lowest murder rate. but do these other countries count abortions as murder.
I'm not familiar with international law so I cannot say for certain but since I haven't looked at the provided sources, I'm not sure how they define murder, such as are there separate questions each of manslaughter, first-degree murder, second-degree murder and infanicide? I ask this because as obvious as it seems, many epidemiological studies on violence, specifically domestic violence aren't great at separating the questions so it ends up having one question to cover several actions. So I'm not sure if this occurs in the provided sources or not.
ftv1975 said:
where do i find a neutral source that doesn't have a political point of view or religious point of view? How will i know if the source is reliable
I'll answer your second question first because it's important to address that one before the first question. When it comes to science, do you know what accuracy, reliability and validity are? I don't intend to be rude, it's just that common-sense ideas don't always agree with what is defined in science.
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