[quote]hardcore_balla wrote:
Damn Zeb you did it again,
You pulled out your RAND study of 1792 kids out of how many in the united states? [/quote]
A man named Zogby once stated that he could let you know who the next President of the US would be if he could simply poll 750 people! He’s not alone most of the top polling companies need only a tiny fraction to determine trends.
The poliing of 1,792 kids is a darned good representation. And it was done by the “RAND corporation” a very reputable company with solid experience in the field.
By the way where is your counter poll that you said could be easily had which proves your theory?
Can’t find one huh? 
And the poll(s) that you have not shown proves what? Think my friend…
You attack my data yet offer none of your own. Weak…
I guess in order to prove your faulty point you would have to poll your friends. Otherwise you have no statistics at all to back up your half baked premise.
At least thus far you have shown me nothing, nada, zilch, zip.
Then why can’t you come up with just one (more would be helpful) study which shows that showing kids more sex (or violence) on TV does NOT cause them to want to have sex?
You attack this one very good study done by an unbiased group and placed in a pediatric magazine. But you can’t seem to come up with even ONE study which contradicts it…
That is basically what advertising is all about. As I stated Procter & Gamble spends over one billion dollars per based upon this concept. It’s a solid concept. General Motors likes to show people driving their cars because that makes the viewer want to drive GM cars. It influences decision making.
And when it comes to children it is even more so. As those under a certain age are far more easily influenced than adults.
I’m surprised that this comes as a new idea to you. How old did you say you were?
What I stated is simply because something is popular does not mean that it’s appropriate.
See the difference?
Why do people complain to each other and not call the networks? LOL…you can’t be that naive can you? How many folks really want their name logged in as someone complaining? How many are just not going to take the time to do it? How many simply don’t think that they can make a difference?
I think one reason that only about half of our citizens vote is because they don’t see their one vote making a difference. Does that mean that they have no opinion?
The fact that 12 million (your figure) people actually took the time to complain should tell you people are indeed fed up!
I’ve watched them and was very unimpressed in many ways. But, no I’m not going sit down with my family and expose them to some of the garbage that passes as entertainment. Granted not all TV is bad TV. There are some very good programming, but you have to search for it and avoid the garbage. It’s sort of like stepping around the dog crap to get to the sidewalk.
Let me leave you with this:
“According to Sex on TV 4, a biennial study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the number of sexual scenes on television has nearly doubled since 1998.”
And until you can counter this study with a legitimate one of your own please tell me why children have to be influenced in such a negative manner:
“A study of 1792 adolescents ages 12-17 showed that watching sex on TV influences teens to have sex. Youths who watched more sexual content where more likely to initiate intercourse and progress to more advanced noncoital sexual activities in the year following the beginning of the study. Youths in the 90th percentile of TV sex viewing had a predicted probability of intercourse initiation that was approximately double that of youths in the 10th percentile. Basically, kids with higher exposure to sex on TV were almost twice as likely than kids with lower exposure to initiate sexual intercourse. - Study Conducted by RAND and published in the September 2004 issue of Pediatrics.”
And here is another one for you:
“46% of high school students in the United States have had sexual intercourse. Although sex is common, most sexually active teens wish they had waited longer to have sex, which suggest that sex is occurring before youths are prepared for its consequences. 1 case of an STD is diagnosed for every 4 sexually active teens.”
Read that last stat until it sinks in!
And another:
“In a national opinion poll conducted for Common Sense Media (“New Attempt to Monitor Media Content,” NY Times, 5/21/03), 64% of parents with at least one child between the ages of 2 and 17 believed media products in general were inappropriate for their families. Only one in five parents ‘fully trusted’ the industry-controlled rating systems.”
Here’s one more for you in case you still don’t get it:
“First, on a per-hour basis, sexual material was more than three times as frequent in 1999 as it was in 1989.”
http://www.probe.org/content/view/863/169/
You and I can give our opinions on what we feel is acceptable and what is not acceptable. However, they are bound to be different based upon our differing ages and of course marital status and whether we have or do not have children.
However, I have given you some serious statistics to consider which represent how kids view TV entertainment and how parents are fed up with it. In other words a more global view. Now please post back about all of the studies that contradict the above. Otherwise, why keep talking?
If not younger.