TV makes you smarter, so don't bother reading this

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So apparently, I’m smarter than I thought. According to this article in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine some of the new television shows are conditioning us to think smarter than our couch potato forebears. According to the lengthy piece (and if someone can make sense of the graphs, please explain them because they seem like a lot of gibberish to me—I must not be watching enough television), today’s shows, like 24 , The Sopranos and even ER

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