| ▲ | nabbed a day ago |
| I watch (or listen to) a lot of youtube on my iPad (and sometimes on my TV, but not too often). I wonder if youtube watching is also correlated with the mentioned brain changes. |
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| ▲ | epgui a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Obviously? Why do you think it would be any different? |
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| ▲ | nabbed a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Not sure myself. There's more variety of content on youtube, whereas I think TV sometimes caters to lowest common denominator (although that's less the case in the era of streaming: TV is much higher quality than it was when this study started in 1987). On youtube, you could watch lots of silly dancing videos, car crashes, etc., possibly rotting your brain. Or you could watch history lectures, book reviews, documentaries, etc. | |
| ▲ | mejari a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The type of content, the length of content, the method of ingesting the content, the different motivations/precursors to TV watching vs online watching (since the study doesn't determine causation only correlation) lots of things. Science doesn't work by looking at things and saying what's "obvious" or "common sense", because what's supposedly obvious or common sense is often actually false. | | |
| ▲ | epgui 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm a scientist, so I know how science works. More research is always needed. Thinking that watching video content on a different box is any different in this context is wishful thinking. |
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| ▲ | nephihaha a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| YouTube algorithms have a tendency to try and lead you down rabbit holes and watch AI generated content. I notice YouTube constantly trying to bias me in one direction or another. A lot of the political content on there is nowhere near as intelligent as it pretends to be. If it notices you are interested in something, it will show you a glut of content on that particularly subject. Some of the videos are just churning out similar content. If you click on a Monty Python video, Python takes over your suggestions. Nothing against Python, I just want to watch a variety of things. |
