Part 2 – Analysis of an Argument

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The author criticizes video games being a negative impact on youth in the initial analysis and later he provides an evidence saying over 25 years, actually youth of the nation is doing well in the college aptitude tests and the entry level salaries are increased for college graduates, where the video games were used more. This shows the weaken argument and evidences, as the good maths score and increase in entry level salary could be dependent on many factors like economy doing well in these years and increase in the number of colleges and those aptitude tests.

In the author’s first assumption, over these 25 years, the math scores of the students have raised in the commonly used college test, there could be few other factors influencing this like students preparation for test, competition among other students, due to increase in college numbers over that period tests would be relatively similar. There is no evidence from author on the stats of students who play video games and who score well in aptitude. Video games could have been recreation act for the students, but not all the students or youth necessarily would play video games. Also there is no mention of the amount of time they play the games.

In the second assumption, author provides another evidence saying entry level salary increase for the college students, there could as well several reason for this like student’s academic performance, economy doing well, job market booming and so on. There is no evidence of all the college graduates playing video games in the authors argument neither amount of time youths play. The students or graduates who are performing well and spends reasonable amount of time in studies would have got the good entry level salary and not all the students. So there is no segregation on this context.

Overall, for all the reasons discussed we cannot conclude that video games are providing skills to the youth to succeed in the college and workplace. Video games could be a recreational act for the students but there is no evidence in the author’s argument giving any statistical analysis of number of students playing video game and performing well in the college or workplace.