Hi everyone! My name is Sara Bailey. I am a junior in high school at Tallulah Falls. This is my second year here. I am from Winston-Salem, so I am a boarder at school. I enjoy spending time with my friends, watching movies, reading lots of books, and exercising. I am a part of the cross country team, where I spend most of my afternoons practicing. I am very excited to learn more about how the brain works, and how it makes our bodies and minds function the way they do.
I think that the research done for the experiment is not good data. The article was limited to one source, meaning that there wasn't a range of information. Also, The age span for this research was relatively small. In the article, it states that"ten percent of children had attentional problems at age 7" (Christakis et al. 2004), and they make that statistic seem much larger, and much more of a problem than it is. Surveys can be very useful for some things, but they can also generalize a large group of individuals, based on a smaller group, meaning that the information might not be accurate. This research was done over a short period of time and not enough to fully observe the true data. The shortening attention spans could have something to do with this generation, and not much to do with TV at all.
Reading the different types of research in Chapter two helped me so much with reading these two articles. It helped me find the flaws in finding, gathering, and organizing the data that was presented here. In Chapter 1 I really enjoyed learning a little bit about the origins of psychology and some of the key figures in developing the ideas that we use and practice today.
Source: Christakis, D. A, Zimmerman, F.J., DiGiuseppe, D.L., & McCarty, C.A. (2004, April) Pediatrics, 113(4), 708.