{"id":611,"date":"2005-07-05T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2005-07-05T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T17:20:30","slug":"hopkinsstanford-computers-make-you-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/hopkinsstanford-computers-make-you-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins\/Stanford: Computers Make You Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all knew this, but Johns Hopkins and Stanford had to go and prove it. TV makes you dumber, and computers make you smarter. The press release goes on to describe how third graders in Northern California do better on standardized tests if they have a computer in addition to a television at home. (Duh, better hand-eye coordination!) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Overall, children who had a television set in the bedroom but did not have a computer at home scored the lowest, while students without TV in the bedroom but with access to a computer at home scored the highest. Students who gained a television in the bedroom over the course of the school year scored lower in all areas than those who had their TV taken away during the same period. The researchers did not find a consistent negative association between test scores and the amount of television watched per week.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhsph.edu\/publichealthnews\/press_releases\/2005\/borzekowski_tv.html\">TELEVISION IN THE BEDROOM MAY HURT A CHILD&#8217;S SCHOOL PERFORMANCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all knew this, but Johns Hopkins and Stanford had to go and prove it. TV makes you dumber, and computers make you smarter. The press release goes on to describe how third graders in Northern California do better on standardized tests if they have a computer in addition to a television at home. (Duh, better hand-eye coordination!) Overall, children who had a television set in the bedroom but did not have a computer at home scored the lowest, while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-gossip","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-9R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}