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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by video games

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never has a form of entertainment been more responsible for injured thumbs that [Man playing video game]

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is since the early 19th century game don't let the hammer fall upon your

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thumb what they didn't have cable back then.... anyway here's our

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question which piece of evidence is irrelevant to the claim video games

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should be taken seriously as a form of media just like books or movies and here

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are potential answers... So for something to be relevant evidence it

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needs to be... relevant and evidence [Man beating a drum]

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what that translates to is no opinions

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allowed so let's take a look at our options and see if any of them fail the

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test of being relevant evidence starting with A. Well as far as being relevant

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evidence A looks pretty good it's true facts so it's evidence and it's relevant

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since it compares video games to other massively popular media formats like [Boy playing video game sitting on a sofa]

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books and movies unfortunately that means it's not irrelevant evidence so

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our answer isn't A.. what about B? well it's true that video games often tell

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complex stories so we can put a checkmark in our evidence box and books [Man checks evidence box]

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and movies often tell complex stories too so that means the relevant box gets

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checked too bad news for B, how about C? even more relevant evidence it's

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true the video games are a multi-billion dollar industry and so are

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the book and film industries... that leaves us with D now [Man holding dollars]

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we're talking whether or not video games are fun and cool as a matter of opinion

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not fact so this can't stand as evidence relevant or otherwise that means our

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correct answer is D that wasn't so hard definitely easier than explaining why

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you and your friends we're dropping hammers on each other [Man telling off people playing with hammers]

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