One Hour of Extra Screen Time Drags Down Teenagers Grades Assignment | Get Paper Help

This Discussion is related to your Day One Lecture Material, your Chapter 1 (Salkind) material, and your Chapter 5 (Smith and Davis) material. After reading the material post a comment discussing whether you agree or disagree with the commentary described in this blog In your comments include what you would assess as methodological flaws or problems. Discuss the following questions: Do you agree with the researcher that screen time is CAUSING teenagers to have worse grades

Teenagers who spend an extra hour a day surfing the internet, watching TV or
playing computer games risk performing two grades worse in exams than their
peers who don’t, according to research by British scientists.
In a study of more than 800 students aged 14 and 15, researchers from
Cambridge University also found that physical activity had no effect on academic
performance.
Since this was a prospective study, in which the researchers followed the pupils
over time to see how different behaviors affected performance, the scientists said
it was reasonable to conclude that too much screen time reduced academic
achievement.
“We only measured this.. in Year 10, but this is likely to be a reliable snapshot of
participants’ usual behavior, so we can reasonably suggest that screen time may
be damaging to a teenager’s grades,” said Kirsten Corder of Cambridge’s Centre
for Diet and Activity Research, who co-led the work.
The study, published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and
Physical Activity, found the average amount of screen time per day was four
hours.
An extra hour in front of the TV or online at age 14-and-a-half was linked with
9.3 fewer exam points at age 16 — equivalent to two grades, for example from a B
to a D. Two extra hours was linked to 18 fewer points.
Unsurprisingly, the results also showed that pupils doing an extra hour of daily
homework and reading scored better – getting on average 23.1 more points than
their peers.
The scientists said further research was needed to confirm the effect
conclusively, but advised parents worried about their children’s grades to
consider limiting screen time.
In a breakdown analysis of different screen activities, the researchers found that
TV came out as the most detrimental in terms of exam performance.
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