misha573

October 12, 2010 at 8:46am

I agree.  How was this study conducted?  A random sampling of 1000 kids?  What was the control?  Did they note behaviour from the sample with reduced screen time, then added screen time to determine effect?

Sounds like another bunch of loser scientist wannabes doing piss poor science and releasing it as a study.  That is, if they just took a sampling of kids and asked them a bunch of questions.

It could very well be that the increased screen time is indicative rather than causative.  I know it is for me.  When I was a little'un many, many, many moons ago I was even more of an introvert (what they seem to be expressing as a "peer problem") than I am now.  Even so, I did not watch TV...I read books.

I fail to see the correlation between screen time and unhappiness...unless they're unhappy at the time 'cause they're not in front the screen.  I guess if they watch news all the time they could get seriously depressed.  But these emotions need to be taken into context.  You cannot extract something like screen time from the overall environment and point to that as causative.  That's just really bad science and playing around with statistics.