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Originally Posted by strombad
Your points are all well and good, but unfortunately the major issue with everything above is that you're leaning on physical evidence and "proof" of something's emotional or mental impact.
Fighting, while misused in some regards, is a tool that only affects the mental state of players. That is it's role. The only evidence therein that is even applicable in this situation is the word of players.
If someone were to undertake this study, it would not be a study that is comparable to something like "Does stick stiffness result in harder shots?" where you could in fact take a measurable form of physical data and apply it to your study, this is something more like "Does a particular food improve mood?"
Fighting is a physical act, but it's effect is not at all physical, it is entirely mental. You can ask for studies by professionals, but what exactly do you think they are going to draw their data from? It's going to be from players, because of it being a mental effect, they are the only real source of information.
Harp on these players being in a bubble all you want, but fighting is only effective inside that bubble, so I hope you don't see that point as being a detractor against their credibility on the situation.
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The study would be looking at objective endpoints. I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you saying the effects are not measurable? If so, I'd convincingly argue that if that's the case, which I believe is true, then they are in fact useless to the outcome of a game.