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Does watching TV cause Autism ?

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James Poterba is President of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the Mitsui Professor of Economics at M.I.T.

Quote"They find that it is, and that this correlation cannot be explained simply by the fact that both cable subscriptions and autism rates were rising over the study period, since communities where subscription rates grew faster experienced faster growth in autism rates as well"

http://www.nber.org/bah/winter07/w12632.html

Electron cathode ray brainwashing delta signal via light cones of the eye to the brain.

Which country watches the most TV and which country has the most autism.

http://www.icare4autism.org/news/2010/09/autism-action-a-global-perspective/

http://www.aneki.com/watch_tv.html

I have not watched TV in the last 5 years, as I knew it was effecting my condition. My parents had the biggest TV in the street as well, growing up. So maybe TV size maybe a correlation as well.

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    Despite the growing interest in autism, its causes are not well understood. It is widely accepted that genetics or biology plays an important role in the development of autism. However, many in the medical community believe that the increasing prevalence of autism points to a role for an environmental "trigger" that is becoming more common over time. Yet there is little consensus as to what the trigger (or triggers) might be.

    With the recent explosion in television programming and videos aimed at very young children, exposure to electronic media may be one possible trigger. One study found that on a typical day, four out of five children aged 6 months to 6 years old use screen media (TV, videos and DVDs, computers, and video games), for an average of two hours per day. While similar statistics for earlier periods are hard to come by, it seems likely that young children are spending more time in front of the television today than they did in the past. "

    http://www.nber.org/bah/winter07/w12632.html

    The link on my original posting, answers a lot of these questions.

    I am just the messager.., never doing that job again. lol Undecided 

     

     

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  • quote"

    Despite the growing interest in autism, its causes are not well understood. It is widely accepted that genetics or biology plays an important role in the development of autism. However, many in the medical community believe that the increasing prevalence of autism points to a role for an environmental "trigger" that is becoming more common over time. Yet there is little consensus as to what the trigger (or triggers) might be.

    With the recent explosion in television programming and videos aimed at very young children, exposure to electronic media may be one possible trigger. One study found that on a typical day, four out of five children aged 6 months to 6 years old use screen media (TV, videos and DVDs, computers, and video games), for an average of two hours per day. While similar statistics for earlier periods are hard to come by, it seems likely that young children are spending more time in front of the television today than they did in the past. "

    http://www.nber.org/bah/winter07/w12632.html

    The link on my original posting, answers a lot of these questions.

    I am just the messager.., never doing that job again. lol Undecided 

     

     

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