Positive correlation between games and Crime.

According to polygon.com there is a possible correlation between violent video games and crime in the Unite States. As their opening statement puts it "High sales of violent video games do not result in spikes in crime rates, instead correlating with a decrease in violent youth activity."

So as the story goes a group of economists were writing a paper on how violent video games effects crimes in youths. Within this study the economists looked at the continuing sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, a game about doing pretty much every crime under the sun. 

Now this study found that on the release day of Grand Theft Auto 4 crime hit the roof, but as the game had been out for a few days and a few weeks, the rate of crime started to slowly decrease and almost stagnating at a very tiny amount. 

Now I guess technically this is a negative correlation, but you know where I was going. The only problem I see with this idea is that this idea could probably move over to other statistics, like as Grand Theft Auto IV sales went up so did the sales of deli meat or as crime goes down the GPA of students in a college in Ontario goes up. Now those are ideas that don't necessarily correlate in the same way as games and crime/violence. However, the point is made, this may be an interesting correlation, but it doesn't really mean anything.

Unless this can be turned into a causation, instead of a correlation, it's just a nifty idea. But if this can, it will change the way we view video games and might make censorship lessened.