Methodological Flaws

There are many methodological flaws in the study of video games and genitive development by Bejjanki and colleagues (2011) that could easily provide for an invalid result from the study. One of the biggest problems with this experiment was experimenter bias, which was stated as a possibility while recruiting these men. This study was published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal by Vikranth Bejjanki and some colleagues who work for the research department at Princeton University, a credible college. Although, Bejjanki and colleagues (2011) did point out that the study was funded by different health and vision foundations which is easily a bias because health and vison companies are wanting to prove that certain things …show more content…
It’s hard to decide if the results are actually accurate because of the limited number of participants. You cannot just assume that this would apply to all people/ young adults in general given the smaller amount of people involved. This means that the study has an issue of generalization because there was not a lot of participants in the experiment so you can’t just assume everyone will be benefitted by video games. Another problem with the generalization of this study is that the experiment only included guys so therefore, there is no way of determining for women if video games actually improve cognitive development in all people. The study should be labeled ‘Do video games help with cognitive development in men?’ not just that video games are supposed to help with cognitive development. I believe that the researchers may have some bias as well considering the main researcher is a male, so if he likes video games of course he would want them to be good for him. What man that likes video games would not want it to be good for him? Then he could have a justification to his wife or girlfriend of why he plays them so