Atrophy.
Yeah, but what if I’m busy and keeping the kids in front of the TV keeps them quiet!?!?
The TV was always on when I grew up. I ended up perfectly fine. My kids watch a lot of TV and they’re doing great too. My little girl wants to be a business owner just like Mr. Krabs.
TV/brain ping
Pruning brains?
Isn’t that sort of like a lobotomy?
Man I could have been a genius...
Presumably this exhausted the supply of Japanese children who watched less than four hours of TV per day. The rest of them were inaccessible to testing, having actually MERGED mentally and physically with their televisions.
Is this study just for TVs or does it include computers and cell phones also? Go anywhere and look at people. They’re always staring into some sort of screen.
Remember....they're using computers in Kindergarten.
Or, alternatively, the dimmest children are the ones most likely to sit in front of the idiot box and vegetate.
I’ve known some rather dim individuals that simply had to have the television on at all times, even if absolute nonsense was on (such as late-night infomercials). I have a pet theory that such persons must have some form of mindless chatter in the background all of the time, otherwise the echo of the wind whistling between their ears might drive them mad.
I have to point out: this study checked children that watch too much JAPANESE television. Even though it’s probable that the pattern holds, what they watch there is not even remotely similar to, well, anything at all.
Surely it would depend a little on what they are watching? I notice the study doesnt go into that.
So. . like. . .what you are saying. . .you know. . .like. . .like. . I'm like . .. you know. . .the verbal stuff and what not. . you know what I mean. . I mean. . .yea. .like, I watched the tube, sure. . you know what I mean. . I mean. . my friends, like. .you know my friends understand me fine. . you know what I mean?