Facebook users have lower overall grades than non-users, according to a survey of college students who also ironically said the social networking site does not interfere with studying.
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A new edition of the Skeptics' Circle is up at Science and Politics.
There are a number of arguments that turning your computer off during non-use periods (like overnight) is a bad idea. This wears out your computer, the power-up cycle uses so much energy that it is offset only by hours of down time, etc. etc. For the most part, these beliefs are incorrect.
Non-U.S. Stochastic readers, we've heard you. You tried to answer the Seed survey, tried to fill in the questions about where you live, and all you got was a lousy selection of U.S. states to choose from.
The Obama campaign has made much of the McCain campaign's "erratic" performance but there are some things he has been steady and consistent about. Like reproductive rights. He's against them. Steadily. Consistently. You surely know McCain wants to make abortion illegal again in the US.
There are college students who don't use social networking sites? I suspect the correlation is not the causation here. Those few remaining holdouts are likely of a special mentality.
So, people who study less have time to use Facebook. OK.
Someone actually paid for this study, huh? Can I get a job like that? ;-)