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Japanese Government Study: Mobile Use Bad for School Test Scores

posted by n1 on Tuesday August 26 2014, @08:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-education-tedious dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Children who spend more than four hours a day on their mobile phone perform significantly worse on school tests than those who are limited to just 30 minutes, a Japanese government survey has found.

Among the nearly one-in-nine 14 and 15-year-olds who use their handheld device for at least four hours daily, grade scores suffer an average 14 percentage points across all subjects.

[Editor's Note: The source for this story is AFP (Toyko). We have been unable to find a link to the actual study, there may not be an English translation at this time.]

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Aiwendil on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:00AM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:00AM (#86108) Journal

    I reacted on the same thing..

    I mean, a rough estimate:
    24 hours in a day (24h remaining)
    * School ~8h (16h remaining)
    * Sleep ~8h (8h)
    * Getting dressed and breakfast ~ 0.75h (7.25h)
    * Travel to and from school ~ 1h (6.25h)
    * Afterschool activities ~ 1h (5.25h)
    * Chores/helping out at home ~ 1h (4.25h)
    * Eating dinner ~ 0.5h (3.75)
    * Cellphone ~ 4h (-0.25h)

    So it is basically saying that students that doesn't study does worse.

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  • (Score: 1) by mckwant on Thursday August 28 2014, @06:00PM

    by mckwant (4541) on Thursday August 28 2014, @06:00PM (#86841)

    >Chores/helping out at home ~ 1h (4.25h)

    Only if you include the 45 minutes of whining about the chores.

    Joking, but only mostly.