Because our study was cross-sectional (we asked about television
watching and school performance all at the same time), we cannot say that
watching television causes worse school performance.
Night-sky watching attitudes among college students: A preliminary investigation.
Further identification of noctcaelador: An underlying factor influencing night-sky watching behaviors.
Telewebbers said using the Internet while
watching the news to get more information about a story their most common use, followed by getting sports information while
watching a game.
Therein may lie the key to understanding both the role and the influence of watching TV in Canada.
(Or, as Lewis Lapham wrote recently on the occasion of the re-publication of McLuhan's most influential work: "Understanding Media describes the world I see and know.") More to the point, his understanding of television as an extension of the human nervous system is not only piercingly insightful, it begs the entire issue of the alleged passivity of watching TV.
It's harder cut back on established television watching patterns than to begin by limiting the amount of television a child watches.
However, studies have shown it's total watching time that most correlates to obesity.
Increased daytime television
watching a child did and
watching television at bedtime increases the chance the child will experience sleep disturbances.