Posted by:
darth jesus
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Date: November 03, 2011 02:22AM
i personally think the below statement is applicable to tv in general. but that's me, and no, i don't have enough data to back that up.
this is just one (1) study. to make up your mind you should explore and read a lot more than this one single article.
nonetheless, it's a start:
"In a study released by the University of Virginia, exposing 60 four year old children to a 9-minute segment of Spongebob Squarepants, and it contributed to the children scoring lower in memory and thinking skills compared to a controlled group and watched slow-paced educational cartoons or drew pictures"
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=16032