Question

Your mother dislikes the fact that you spend your free time playing video games. she points to a newspaper article that says violence is correlated with video game use. which of these is a scientifically effective counterargument for your mother?

Answer 1

The correct answer would be, Correlations do not imply causation.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is accepted worldwide that correlations do not imply causation, which means if there is a relation between playing video games and violence, it does not provide evidence that the cause of violence is playing video games.

This would be the strongest counterargument you can come up with in front of your mother. There could be many other causes of violence being practiced by children, like they may see such type of things in their real lives, or may be they have been the victim of violence that is causing them to become violent, but we cannot say it firmly that playing video games is the only reason of a child getting violent.