This entire article smells like bullshit to me. One, it relies on self report of amount of TV watching and second, it implies that the correlation implies causation.

[–] sam_the_tech@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

What if I’m not actively watching the TV and it’s more or less just background noise while I’m studying or working? Am I still an idiot then?

[–] avg@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Actually that's adhd, we claim that one.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yep. Actually all of the participants in this study did what you did.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

What about heavy YouTube watching? I'm usually learning how to do things.