Movies may tempt teens to drink
Student Society for Science 24-4-15
SCIENTIFIC SHIELD: Body and health, brain and behavior
SUMMARY:
More than four in ten British 15-year-olds say their drinking is interfering with their life. But not all teens face the same alcohol risks, a new study finds. Those who see more drinking in movies are more likely to drink a lot themselves.
The finding comes from a long-term study in the United Kingdom called the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.Researchers had asked the 15-year olds about alcohol.
The teens also answered questions about what movies they had seen. Researchers weren’t interested in Frozen or Big Hero 6. They wanted to know about films where drinking took place on screen. So they focused on 50 popular films. The researchers then added up the minutes of onscreen drinking in all of the movies that a teen reported watching.
CRITICAL APPRAISAL:
The goal was to probe whether this on screen alcohol use was linked to how much teenagers drank in real life.
Of course, many factors affect whether someone chooses to drink. The new study had data on many of these. So then I can't understand why the scientists accused the films. On my view is meaningless.
The methods used to determine if teens drink or not are not reliable enough. It means that the experiment is not reliable at all. So in my opinion the hole experiment is useless.
When you ask someone about something like drinking the people often lies especially teens.
In the case that the experiment is right we can't change the films. Other people tried when the films diffuse violence and they always come to nothing.
GLOSSARY:
alcohol:a colorless liquid produced by yeast fermentation and found in wine, beer, and liquor.
ten: the numbers 13 through 19
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