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May 15, 2005

Idiot Box vs. Books? Not Really

First came two national studies finding that most students study 10 or fewer hours a week. Then came a Nielsen study finding that college students spend more than 26 hours a week watching television. Now a study from Arkansas State University-Jonesboro finds that students spend 13 hours a week studying, but nearly that much—12 hours a week—watching TV. It’s tempting to assume from this data that television is taking up what should be study time, but the situation is more complex than that.

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