Researchers have found a link between the TV viewing habits of elderly women and brain power. The more soap operas and TV talk shows they watched, the lower their mental capacity and cognitive skills.
Women who watched talk shows were 7 times more likely to have long-term memory problems. Those who watched soap operas were 13 more times likely to experience memory problems.
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Is it possible, too, that women who consciously choose to watch soap operas and talk shows are already low on ‘mental capacity’ anyway? I can almost guarantee you that most women of real solid intelligence would not watch these programs to begin with (because watching them feels notably insulting to your intelligence, I think any desire to watch the program by smart women would be lost very soon after tuning in!). So, unless the researchers are taking women who are all initially intelligent and able, and forced them to watch such shows to get the aforementioned results, perhaps it’s the type of person (as an independent ‘variable’) and their ‘intelligence’ levels that determines which shows they watch: as opposed to the shows being the determining factor and altering their mental capacity.
(Though personally I do agree they dumb people down, I still believe it does have something to do with what kind of person you are to begin with.)
I totally agree with Megan.
there is a certain type of person who watches these ‘programs of emptiness’.
but I also think it is possible that if you watch them for very long times a day it doesn’t do good for your brain at all.
soaps and talkshows are so zzzzz.