Re:About communication safety in Messages
by cato_the_elder on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:44AM
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> The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day
That's an overestimate, it's probably closer to 3 hours per day [1]. Also, if you exclude the elderly (like +55), it probably becomes significantly less.
> people feel that violence is everywhere
It really is though. Right now, there's a war going on in Europe. Curtailing it wouldn't make it go away.
> Research on the effects of viewing violence found a desensitizing effect, especially for children.
Like the vast majority of social sciences, that area is full of low-quality studies.
[1]:"In the 2013–17 period, the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population ages 15 and older spent an average of 2 hours 46 minutes per day watching TV." (https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-7/television-capturing-a...)
Research on the effects of viewing violence found a desensitizing effect, especially for children. People become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others and more fearful of the world. This effect is much less pronounced for video games, which tend to not dramatize violence.
There is a reason we try to curtail violence in the media in Europe. When you engage with a fantasy many hours a day, it becomes your reality.