Watching TV Makes You Dumb: Cambridge Study on Television Suggests You Should “Turn it Off”

Posted: September 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

Explains the ever growing number of clueless dolts incapable of an original thought,incapable of critical thinking,incapable of even showing basic problem solving skills,and who couldn’t balance a checkbook if their lives depended on doing so.

Between the results of too much tee-vee,too much time playing video games,and too much time on Farcebook,Twatter,and Skankchat,and far too much time spent staring at the screens of the smart phones that are making them dumb-and the leftist indoctrination centers that our K-12 public re-education enters have become-we have created generations of idiots.

We are raising the second generation of kids who have no clue what it’s like to get up and go to work every day,they are overly sensitive to even the slightest criticisms,because the parents and leftist teachers have brainwashed them into believing they are all special snowflakes.

Most-likely 90% plus have no clue how to use even simple hand tools-let them near a chainsaw,bandsaw,or a table saw-and you’ll be taking them to the local ER,they have no clue to how change the oil in their own cars-no idea how to change a flat tire,sharpen a lawnmower blade,change a sparkplug,hell, most can’t even figure out how to mix the gas and oil for their own weedwhackers.

The current bath of kids cartoons is nothing but leftist propaganda-dumbing kids down and teaching them to submit to the police state at an even earlier age.

If you have kids-or grandkids-get them outside,away from the idiot box,the video games,smart phones,and off the intardnet.

Take them fishing,hiking,camping,shooting,hunting-teach them basic survival skills,teach them to use a map and compass,tech them to start a fire without buying mass produced tinder,”ferro rods”,”firesteels” and all the other high-tech crap-we still have access to lighters,matches,and it’s not that hard to get a few pieces of flint.

Less of this…

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More of this…

Get outdoors-get away from the interwebz,phones,and the tee-vee!

In a study published this week in the open access International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Cambridge researchers found a significant relation between hours spent in front of the television and a decline in academic performance.

The study observed the sedentary time, or time absence of body movement, of 845 high school students between the ages of 14 and 16, for two years. Researchers found that each hour spent glued to the tube was linked with significantly lower scores in the student’s General Certificate of Secondary Education.

The study’s lead researcher Dr. Kirsten Corder, from Cambridge University’s Centre for Diet and Activity Research, said: “Television, computer games, and internet use were all harmful to academic performance, but TV viewing was the most detrimental.

“We can cautiously infer that increased screen time may lead to poorer academic performance for GCSEs.

“I certainly wouldn’t recommend banning television. But if teenagers or parents are concerned about GCSE results, one thing might be to look at the amount of TV viewing that they’re doing and maybe just try to be sensible about it.”

Researchers found that even if students studied more, but still watched television, their scores were still lower than those who watched less television.

This study by Cambridge is one of many studies conducted that illustrate the detrimental effects of television.

There are over 4000 studies that have been done on the effect of TV on children; some of which are very disturbing.

Did you know that the average time a parent spends having meaningful conversation with their child in a week is 3.5 minutes? Also, did you know that the average child spends 1,680 minutes a week watching TV?

Seventy percent of all day-care centers use television. Fifty-four percent of children age 4-6 when asked if they would rather spend time with their fathers or watch television, chose television. The average kid spends 900 hours a year in school and 1500 hours a year watching TV.

An 18-year-old high school student has witnessed 200,000 violent acts on TV, and an elementary student will have seen 8,000 murders. The average child will watch 20,000 commercials a year while the number one spender in youth advertisement is fast food. Fifty-four percent of the shows on TV are devoted to crime. Fifty-nine percent of Americans can name the Three Stooges while only 17 percent can name at least 3 Supreme Court justices.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/watching-tv-dumb-cambridge-study-television-suggests-turn-off/#HzGxTozCCA6Aji6s.99

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