Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!srcsip!haarlem!shankar From: shankar@haarlem.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior? Message-ID: <15125@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 20 Jan 89 19:58:24 GMT References: <14.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> <2085@scolex> <1179@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> <1932@buengc.BU.EDU> Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Reply-To: shankar@haarlem.UUCP (Son of Knuth) Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN Lines: 26 In article <1932@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: > >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. Did this survey mention what the people who aren't watching TV do? Selling drugs? Listening to music? Reading Hardy Boys stories? Reading novels and/or nonfiction? Beating up other gangs? I would think that this would affect the results of the survey. -- Subash Shankar Honeywell Systems & Research Center voice: (612) 782 7558 US Snail: 3660 Technology Dr., Minneapolis, MN 55418 Internet: shankar@src.honeywell.com UUCP: shankar@srcsip.uucp {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!shankar -- Subash Shankar Honeywell Systems & Research Center voice: (612) 782 7558 US Snail: 3660 Technology Dr., Minneapolis, MN 55418 Internet: shankar@src.honeywell.com