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Conclusions
- These initial results demonstrate feasibility.
- More study is needed.
- The instrument was poor, and not sufficiently adapted to the age of the children. There was much confusion, especially in the inner city group. Negatively worded questions were especially problematic.
- The sample size was small - and reduced dramatically when a third of the data were contaminated and needed to be discarded.
- There was no comparison made with alternate interventions that might afford a similar change less expensively. This is a benefit of the Yuker instrument: a large body of data exists testing the effect of such technologies as motion pictures, etc.
- A follow up study that determines whether there was any lasting effect is certainly in order.
- Conversely, the effect of prolonged play also merits study. Five minutes is not realistic.
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