Now I'm curious if it matters what you watch.
I think our brain's power lose its functionality,"thinking", when we forced to something.
Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
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#22Would they have published this study if the correlation was inverted, or would that have been rejected as spurrious bc it goes against our priors?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand the difference, but in this case it’s not a good look for TV viewing regardless
What does that even mean? If people with cognitive deficits have a powerful idiosyncratic preference for pineapple juice, that's not a bad look for pineapple juice.
Last I checked, pineapple juice isn't a highly-utilised behavioural manipulation channel.
The other mechanism is.
Even were the relationship not causal, it is at the very least likely exploitable.
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#24Now I'm curious if it matters what you watch.
Given the difficulties of random blinding, and the long-term (decades-long) duration of the research, studying that aspect (with the same post hoc brain morphology analysis) might help assess causality.
There was some exclusion of other factors in the study per TFA.
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#25Lack of exercise results in smaller muscles, too.
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#26Now I'm curious if it matters what you watch.
probably not as much as doing anything non sedentary
>Strikingly, the sedentary element of TV watching didn’t appear to be the main driver for these changes.
>Those who reported high amounts of sitting at work actually had larger frontal and occipital lobes, as well as reduced white matter hyperintensity volumes, indicating better brain health than among those who sit to watch TV. This could be due to the intellectually stimulating nature of many sit-down jobs, say the study authors.
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#27Interestingly there is no mention of semantics or what does actually "TV watching" mean.
I have friends who self admittedly don't "watch TV" but they watch every single hyped up Netflix series available.
Are they watching TV? By this study they probably not. Are they watching TV? I'd say most likely yes, they also use the device called TV to watch Netflix
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#28Interestingly there is no mention of semantics or what does actually "TV watching" mean. I have friends who self admittedly don't "watch TV" but they watch every single hyped up Netflix series available. Are they watching TV? By this study they probably not. Are they watching TV? I'd say most likely yes, they also use the device called TV to watch Netflix
Maybe no, as they don't watch ads that are so pervasive in classic TV? Just kidding.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does that even mean? If people with cognitive deficits have a powerful idiosyncratic preference for pineapple juice, that's not a bad look for pineapple juice.
Last I checked, pineapple juice isn't a highly-utilised behavioural manipulation channel. The other mechanism is. Even were the relationship not causal , it is at the very least likely exploitable .
Pineapple juice is exploitable as well! Sweetened beneverages are highly caloric and hyperpalatable and preferentially consumed by lower-SES customers. This is an actual criticism people have of our food supply! The point isn't that they're not exploitable, it's that you have to show that they are, otherwise we're not talking about a study anymore, and instead simply telling each other just-so stories.