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<div>A comprehensive Italian study "<i>The Political Legacy of
Entertainment TV</i>" came out recently (available at
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20150958 ), providing
compelling evidence that TV exposure in young age permanently affects
IQ and cognitive abilities in general.<br>
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<div><i>"Overall, these results suggest that early exposure to
entertainment TV led to a decrease in cognitive sophistication and
civic engagement, but only for individuals exposed during
childhood."</i></div>
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Relatively primitive TV technology from decades ago had deep
measurable and permanent influence on today's adult voting population.
The content does not seem to matter - the volume and style do.<br>
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Which means that low-volume (articles, books and conferences)
reasoning against these manufactured attitudes is a waste of time. If
you can't force-feed them your counter-propaganda, or disrupt
force-feeding by controlling communication pipes, you are wasting
everyone's time.<br>
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<div>Fast forward few decades - instead of being glued to the
broadcast television screens with content same for everyone for
several hours daily, the populus today is glued to smaller screens
with customized content for the most of waking hours. Make a wild
guess how will this affect cognitive abilities and political attitudes
when they are measured few decades from now (the only problem is that
there will not be relevant control set.)</div>
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