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From: dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior?
Message-ID: <5678@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 89 06:14:10 GMT
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In article <15125@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@haarlem.UUCP (Son of Knuth) writes:
>In article <1932@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>every study they could find (a few hunnert...) of TV vs. intellect from
...
>Did this survey mention what the people who aren't watching TV do?
...
>I would think that this would affect the results of the survey.

I think a few hundred studies would be enough to ensure a wide variety
of control conditions.  The question is whether the summary was accurate.
Did the full blown version appear in a reputable journal?

                                                    -Dan