Where Do they find These People??

Children who watch more than two hours of television a day are more likely to have attention problems as a teenager, a new study shows.
The study by researchers at Otago University is the first to look at long-term links between watching television as a young child and problems in adolescence.
It found that children who watched at least two hours of television a day were more likely to have short attention spans, and have difficulty concentrating on tasks.
The study has followed more than 1000 children born in Dunedin in 1972 and 1973.



Yep ... it stands to reason that something that requires protracted concentration should result in difficulty concentrating on tasks some years later ... 'practice does not make perfect!' (one must sort of wonder what the starting point was and what has occurred in the interim, though).

The ability to focus on video games for hours on end, similarly cannot improve 'concentration on tasks.' No... the quality and nature of the concentration is just sooo... different.

Mind you, it was only some twenty (or was it thirty) years ago that a lack of having a television was seen as disadvantaging children intellectually and hence educationally ... it provided greater exposure to a far greater vocabulary and experience than was available from their parents, from making their own toys and playing rugby with their mates .... and it still does.

Some of these people need to think a little before they are 'taken over' by the lure of publicity and the notion of appearing on the 'telly.' This nonsense will impact on our kids.