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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior?
Message-ID: <1932@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 19 Jan 89 17:57:59 GMT
References: <14.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> <efs.558soC1010kfWhQ@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <2085@scolex> <1179@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng.
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In article <1179@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) writes:
>
>Americans are intellectually inferior because they learn everything
>they know from TV.

Can you tell who's been watching too much of the tube?

The Boston globe ran an article this past Sunday where the authors took
every study they could find (a few hunnert...) of TV vs. intellect from
the past umpteen years, and summarized:

TV doesn't hinder nor does it aid one's education, unless you're learning
the numbers and letters offa Sesame Street.

				--Blair
				  "So, der, when's 'The Honeymooners'
				   on tonight?"