Sitting while passively watching something that captivate your brain leaving no room for thoughts seems like the perfect combo for brain rot
Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
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#32Direct study link: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz... Observational study with an MRI at the end and user-reported activity histories. The results indicate a correlation, not necessarily causation. The study authors don't pretend to imply causation and are straight with these facts. You can't randomize humans to either do a lot of TV watching for years or stay away from TV for years. So y…
>The results indicate a correlation, not necessarily causation
Just to drive that home, "Study participants also did not undergo a baseline MRI", which of course could mean that they already had some of these brain changes, which may have driven more TV watching.
>Sedentary activity is correlated with slightly faster degradation of multiple brain measures.
It seems to matter what you do while you're being sedentary, at least according to this study. From the article: "Strikingly, the sedentary element of TV watching didn’t appear to be the main driver for these changes."
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#33I watch (or listen to) a lot of youtube on my iPad (and sometimes on my TV, but not too often). I wonder if youtube watching is also correlated with the mentioned brain changes.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Hyperpalatability and propaganda are at best distantly related.
Though a fair effort.
Re: Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
#35I watch (or listen to) a lot of youtube on my iPad (and sometimes on my TV, but not too often). I wonder if youtube watching is also correlated with the mentioned brain changes.
Obviously? Why do you think it would be any different?
Re: Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
#36Direct study link: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz... Observational study with an MRI at the end and user-reported activity histories. The results indicate a correlation, not necessarily causation. The study authors don't pretend to imply causation and are straight with these facts. You can't randomize humans to either do a lot of TV watching for years or stay away from TV for years. So y…
>The results indicate a correlation, not necessarily causation Just to drive that home, "Study participants also did not undergo a baseline MRI", which of course could mean that they already had some of these brain changes, which may have driven more TV watching. >Sedentary activity is correlated with slightly faster degradation of multiple brain measures. It seems to matter what you do while you're being sedentary,…
Seems that the direction of causation is still an open question. Is TV watching causing smaller brains, or is it the other way around?
Intuitively both seem plausible. More research needed!
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#37Re: Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
#38I watch (or listen to) a lot of youtube on my iPad (and sometimes on my TV, but not too often). I wonder if youtube watching is also correlated with the mentioned brain changes.
Obviously? Why do you think it would be any different?
The type of content, the length of content, the method of ingesting the content, the different motivations/precursors to TV watching vs online watching (since the study doesn't determine causation only correlation) lots of things.
Science doesn't work by looking at things and saying what's "obvious" or "common sense", because what's supposedly obvious or common sense is often actually false.
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#39Next up: Heavy AI usage.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I stand corrected and will now go RTFM
edit: thats great... addressed in the first paragraph.