Last night's Survivor finale and next seasons Survivor location!

[Sin]

A few facts about television, from my Psych class last year!!!

--Children's potential is severely limited by lack of creative play
--Replaces conversation, imagination, and play
--Less parental interaction
--Floods brain w/images when developing brain should be forming images from within
--Average N.A. kid has seen 6000 hours of TV by age 5, and 8000 murders by completing elementary school (including cartoons)

**Brainwaves do not critically evaluate TV
******Within 30 seconds our brainwaves switch from Beta (alert & conscious) to Alpha (unfocused, receptive)
--Our logical left hemisphere tunes out.

Kids Habituate, so less is boring (ie when grounded from TV they get bored & say things like "There's nothing to do...")
There's 16 acts of violence per hour (on average) in kids programming, vs 8 per hour in adults.

Media Violence & Social learning:
40% of the violence seen, is done by the good guys. Means violence must be okay.
75% of the violence depicted results in no remorse, and 40% of bad guys get no consequence.

[Nickatilynx]

Originally Posted by Sin

A few facts about television, from my Psych class last year!!!

--Children's potential is severely limited by lack of creative play
--Replaces conversation, imagination, and play
--Less parental interaction
--Floods brain w/images when developing brain should be forming images from within
--Average N.A. kid has seen 6000 hours of TV by age 5, and 8000 murders by completing elementary school (including cartoons)

**Brainwaves do not critically evaluate TV
******Within 30 seconds our brainwaves switch from Beta (alert & conscious) to Alpha (unfocused, receptive)
--Our logical left hemisphere tunes out.

Kids Habituate, so less is boring (ie when grounded from TV they get bored & say things like "There's nothing to do...")
There's 16 acts of violence per hour (on average) in kids programming, vs 8 per hour in adults.

Media Violence & Social learning:
40% of the violence seen, is done by the good guys. Means violence must be okay.
75% of the violence depicted results in no remorse, and 40% of bad guys get no consequence.

87% of college undergraduates that post stats really aren't understanding the lessons...

;-))

[Sin]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

87% of college undergraduates that post stats really aren't understanding the lessons...

;-))

Ahh yes, but then there's that 13% that do

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

87% of college undergraduates that post stats really aren't understanding the lessons...

76.2% of all statistics are made up.

[sudden]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

76.2% of all statistics are made up.

99% of people are stupid (now go figure out if I also made that up)

[Sin]

Originally Posted by sudden

99% of people are stupid (now go figure out if I also made that up)

Now that's a statistic that is relevant to one's own level of intelligence.

lol I love this thread btw. (and this whole board, for that matter)