Strong Headline, Middling Study: TV violence and Kids

Today’s NY Times reports on a pediatric study that claims that redirecting  3-5 year old children to prosocial (as opposed to “antisocial” or aggressive TV shows) result in less aggression in the children. The study as reported in the Times is flawed. First, the entire study is based on parent report: how much TV the children watched, that the parents redirected the children’s shows and that the children became less “violent.”  (Readers, such as myself, assume that the Times is reporting the methodology accurately.)  Second, the Times reports that the average American 3-5 year old watches 4.5 hours of TV daily…daily Continue reading Strong Headline, Middling Study: TV violence and Kids