The subjects at the summer camp were only tested for two months, so we have no way of knowing if they were already exposed to violent video games outside our test group. However, the experiment did adequately measure how much aggression was displayed. Pros for conducting and experiment is that we can control what happens to the subjects and use them as often as we liked. On the other hand we were at a void as to what happened with our subjects when they were home for the season, which could have altered our results. Seeing the kids in their natural state proved very helpful, since there were no barriers or interference. Nonetheless, we incorporated a diverse number of observers or inter-rater reliability to keep observer bias at a
The subjects at the summer camp were only tested for two months, so we have no way of knowing if they were already exposed to violent video games outside our test group. However, the experiment did adequately measure how much aggression was displayed. Pros for conducting and experiment is that we can control what happens to the subjects and use them as often as we liked. On the other hand we were at a void as to what happened with our subjects when they were home for the season, which could have altered our results. Seeing the kids in their natural state proved very helpful, since there were no barriers or interference. Nonetheless, we incorporated a diverse number of observers or inter-rater reliability to keep observer bias at a