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Originally Posted by realcity
The number crunchers fail to see other environment factors.
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You're right that it's important to control for other contributing factors, but at least some of the studies I referenced did this. For example, the
Gulf War study notes: "the relationships we explore have been isolated after running controls for other explanatory variables".
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Originally Posted by BCTed
ryan_mcgreal's study seems to measure level of adopted misinformation rather than "smartness" or "dumbness"
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As I wrote in my comment: "It might be a stretch to state that TV makes you dumber as such, but it is clearly correlated with higher levels of confusion and misinformation."
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