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This is exactly - verbatim - the same theory my parents applied to my lagging grades 20 years ago, except then it was videogames and the TV.
by mustacheemperor 3y ago
This is exactly - verbatim - the same theory my parents applied to my lagging grades 20 years ago, except then it was videogames and the TV.
- sneed_chucker 3y agoA lot has changed since then.
- AlgorithmicTime 3y ago[dead]
- asdff 3y agoAre you watching TV when you have a free thirty seconds at the urinal? Waiting for the elevator for a minute? The red light? Any waking moment at all with the TV in front of you? It was certainly not ideal then given how addictive marketing on these screens has always been, but its even worse now in terms of attention span.
- mrguyorama 3y agoThere was no "algorithm" tuned to swap out the games in my nintendo every couple of minutes to keep me drowning in dopamine.
- missedthecue 3y agoI've seen my younger cousin pull up his phone for a dopamine hit during the 17 seconds he waits for his video game loading screen to finish. It just isn't the same as it was 20 years ago. The algorithms are crazy and extremely effective, and it's all so accessible. And of course it's not just kids, it's everyone. But kids are the only humans that are regularly and uniformly tested for aptitude with public results we can all look at and discuss. Just for a random statistic to support this assertion, over 50% of US adults haven't read a single book in the past 12 months. Something that would have been unthinkable in the 1990s.
- mustacheemperor 3y agoI recall protesting to my parents by asking if they got shit from their own for being glued to the tv as kids but they also explained it was different back then. I mean look, it very well may be different now. I don’t have kids and have no expertise on any science of child rearing. But “it isn’t the same as it was 20 years ago” is also something I heard 20 years ago.