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2 hours of TV a day in late childhood linked to lower test scores later – The Conversation AU
Children who ‘passively’ use screens are more likely to suffer academically, a study found. But there was no evidence of a link between video games and academic performance.
Children aged 8 and 9 who watched more than two hours of TV a day or spent more than one hour a day on a computer had lower scores than their peers on reading and numeracy at ages 10 and 11, our study has found.
Our results, published in PLOS ONE, were collected as part of the Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study (CATS) based at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.
We found children who watched TV two hours per day at 8 and 9 years of age performed lower in reading two years later c…
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