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Like others have said, all TV shows can cause an attention-disorder. Spongebob has nothing to do with it. Spongebob may not be the most educational, mentally-stimulating show out there, but it was never really meant to be like that in the first place. It was just meant to be fun and entertaining. Which is what is, and should stay as. Let's hope the government doesn't get its mits on it.
Spongebob's target audience is also 6+(come on, we all watch here. :D) So doing the test on 4 year olds is just stupid. That'd be like giving a toy that said ages 6 up, choking hazards, to them and complaining that the company made a dangerous toy. They just aren't meant to handle it. If they redid the study with more age appropriate candidates, then the results might have a little validity to them.
The article even says that the children were not tested before. So they have no real base to compare their results off of. There could have been other distractions and limitations that they did not know about among the subjects. Maybe they tested low because they were too busy using their imagination, which wouldn't be a bad thing in this world.
As for the whole-attention span thing, that has nothing to do with intelligence, this I'm sure of. We have an Autistic kid at my school and he has attention-span problems, and he's one of the smartest kids, I'd honestly have to say. Whether that's complimenting him or insulting everyone else, I do not know. I'm not the best at paying attention to something either, yet I'm probably in the top 5 smartest kids in my class. When I lose interest, I tend to just that, lose interest and do something else, even if I AM in class. But I can see where the concern is as someone might shift out of focus and not pay attention to something vital. But I tend to always be listening on a subconscious level, and I understand most of it. So whatever. :s
Spongebob is awesome show, the people who did the study have too many sources of error to make it a valid source, and intelligence has little to do with attention-span and focus.
Like others have said, all TV shows can cause an attention-disorder. Spongebob has nothing to do with it. Spongebob may not be the most educational, mentally-stimulating show out there, but it was never really meant to be like that in the first place. It was just meant to be fun and entertaining. Which is what is, and should stay as. Let's hope the government doesn't get its mits on it.
Spongebob's target audience is also 6+(come on, we all watch here. :D) So doing the test on 4 year olds is just stupid. That'd be like giving a toy that said ages 6 up, choking hazards, to them and complaining that the company made a dangerous toy. They just aren't meant to handle it. If they redid the study with more age appropriate candidates, then the results might have a little validity to them.
The article even says that the children were not tested before. So they have no real base to compare their results off of. There could have been other distractions and limitations that they did not know about among the subjects. Maybe they tested low because they were too busy using their imagination, which wouldn't be a bad thing in this world.
As for the whole-attention span thing, that has nothing to do with intelligence, this I'm sure of. We have an Autistic kid at my school and he has attention-span problems, and he's one of the smartest kids, I'd honestly have to say. Whether that's complimenting him or insulting everyone else, I do not know. I'm not the best at paying attention to something either, yet I'm probably in the top 5 smartest kids in my class. When I lose interest, I tend to just that, lose interest and do something else, even if I AM in class. But I can see where the concern is as someone might shift out of focus and not pay attention to something vital. But I tend to always be listening on a subconscious level, and I understand most of it. So whatever. :s
Spongebob is awesome show, the people who did the study have too many sources of error to make it a valid source, and intelligence has little to do with attention-span and focus.
Spongebob's target audience is also 6+(come on, we all watch here. :D) So doing the test on 4 year olds is just stupid. That'd be like giving a toy that said ages 6 up, choking hazards, to them and complaining that the company made a dangerous toy. They just aren't meant to handle it. If they redid the study with more age appropriate candidates, then the results might have a little validity to them.
The article even says that the children were not tested before. So they have no real base to compare their results off of. There could have been other distractions and limitations that they did not know about among the subjects. Maybe they tested low because they were too busy using their imagination, which wouldn't be a bad thing in this world.
As for the whole-attention span thing, that has nothing to do with intelligence, this I'm sure of. We have an Autistic kid at my school and he has attention-span problems, and he's one of the smartest kids, I'd honestly have to say. Whether that's complimenting him or insulting everyone else, I do not know. I'm not the best at paying attention to something either, yet I'm probably in the top 5 smartest kids in my class. When I lose interest, I tend to just that, lose interest and do something else, even if I AM in class. But I can see where the concern is as someone might shift out of focus and not pay attention to something vital. But I tend to always be listening on a subconscious level, and I understand most of it. So whatever. :s
Spongebob is awesome show, the people who did the study have too many sources of error to make it a valid source, and intelligence has little to do with attention-span and focus.
Like others have said, all TV shows can cause an attention-disorder. Spongebob has nothing to do with it. Spongebob may not be the most educational, mentally-stimulating show out there, but it was never really meant to be like that in the first place. It was just meant to be fun and entertaining. Which is what is, and should stay as. Let's hope the government doesn't get its mits on it.
Spongebob's target audience is also 6+(come on, we all watch here. :D) So doing the test on 4 year olds is just stupid. That'd be like giving a toy that said ages 6 up, choking hazards, to them and complaining that the company made a dangerous toy. They just aren't meant to handle it. If they redid the study with more age appropriate candidates, then the results might have a little validity to them.
The article even says that the children were not tested before. So they have no real base to compare their results off of. There could have been other distractions and limitations that they did not know about among the subjects. Maybe they tested low because they were too busy using their imagination, which wouldn't be a bad thing in this world.
As for the whole-attention span thing, that has nothing to do with intelligence, this I'm sure of. We have an Autistic kid at my school and he has attention-span problems, and he's one of the smartest kids, I'd honestly have to say. Whether that's complimenting him or insulting everyone else, I do not know. I'm not the best at paying attention to something either, yet I'm probably in the top 5 smartest kids in my class. When I lose interest, I tend to just that, lose interest and do something else, even if I AM in class. But I can see where the concern is as someone might shift out of focus and not pay attention to something vital. But I tend to always be listening on a subconscious level, and I understand most of it. So whatever. :s
Spongebob is awesome show, the people who did the study have too many sources of error to make it a valid source, and intelligence has little to do with attention-span and focus.
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