Kids Who Watch R-Rated Movies More Likely to Start Drinking

[jords]

Correlation does not imply causation. These 'researchers' need to go back to school.

 

[Gmano]

I highly doubt the movies "change" the personality. I think the personality that will watch movies before they are of age will drink before they are of age...

It's not an attempt to emulate the actions on screen. It is not causitive, they are each separately derived from the same personality.

 

[Fidelias]

This is bullshit. It's just like the people who keep trying to say there's a link to violence in kids and violent videogames. Everyone who doesn't do these things, think that it's wrong, and try to find a scientific reason to support their theory, even though there is no scientific reason.

 

[experiment0789]

Kids Who Watch R-Rated Movies More Likely to Start Drinking
Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School surveyed 2,400 children around the ages 10 to 12 on the amount of R-rated movies they were allowed to watch. The group was re-surveyed two years later, and the results appear to show a link between R-rated movies and underage drinking.
About 3 percent of children who stated they had "never" seen an R-rated flick began drinking,while 19 percent of "occasional" R-rated movie-goers and 25 percent of "frequent" watchers began drinking.
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This is an interesting trend were going through, blaming or mistakes on something or someone else.
First it was the site of Boobs to an underage child can cause something, and then people who play violent videogames are more prone to be violent, and now Kids Who Watch R-Rated Movies More Likely to Start Drinking.
It?s not like parents have anything to do with the child?s upbringing or anything like that.
?The bottom line, according to the researcher, is that parents should restrict their kids from seeing R-rated films. But he also pointed out that PG-13 movies, as well as many TV shows, often portray drinking and other adult situations -- and that supports limiting children's media time in general.?
According to this quote from the article, I guess parents are a factor in a child?s upbringing after all, I wonder if they did any research on their test subjects other than how much R-Rated-Movies they watched.

Also if you do the math, 3%+19%+25%=47% ( ?3 percent of children who stated they had "never" seen an R-rated flick began drinking, 19 percent of "occasional" R-rated movie-goers and 25 percent of "frequent" watchers began drinking.) ?That?s not much to prove you point that 2,400 children around the ages 12 to 14 were More Likely to Start Drinking becuse of R-rated movie.
(2,400 children around the ages 10 to 12+ The group was re-surveyed two years later)
And that?s without all the factors that could have happened in that two years before they were re-surveyed.




Note: To be spicific The article says it was In a study of nearly 3,600 so it might not be 2,400 excactly.Lastly, it was 13 to 26 months after the initial survey that the subjects were questioned

 

[shogunblade]

I can disprove this using a personal example. I watch some of the most horrific, violent and weird films out there. Like Cannibal Holocaust and August Underground, stuff like that. They aren't even R rated, they aren't rated at all.

And I don't drink. I'm quite responsible and levelheaded, actually.

And in case you think I'm just a freak example, none of the people who I watch those movies with drink or do dangerous things either.

I think their study is flawed.

I agree, sir Furbert. I'm 20, I've only had one drink in my entire life (and have disavowed drinking altogether because of it) and I watched plenty of R rated movies.

I was popular in school, smart (enough), well respected, not quite a ladies man, all the stuff that science dictates makes a kid a drinker, and I'm nothing like that.

If anything, I was keeping myself from watching most R rated movies, my parents didn't care, but I did. When it was something I wanted to see, sure, I'll watch it, but otherwise, it was all okay, nothing weird or anything.

 

[Diligent]

In other news, apples and oranges are THE SAME FRUIT.

 

[Proteus214]

So they concentrated on one somewhat illicit factor to draw a hypothesis of what influences undesirable (and not to mention unrelated) behavior rather than the million other factors that also have influence on a child's life and motivations.

 

[SnipErlite]

Funny how at 18 you can vote, go and die for your country in war but they still won't let you drink.

Almost like the whole "you can have sex at 16 but not watch it on TV until you're 18" thing..... makes no sense.

Also I wonder - if you filmed yourself having sex, could you then watch it? Would it count as pr0n and therefore be 18+ ?

Anyway OT: Yeah that's bullshit. I do drink but I can't imagine that's anything to do with movies. It's about peer pressure/what everyone else does/ because you want to.

 

[almostgold]

I think being a teenager makes you more likely to drink as a teenager.

 

[El_Chubba_Chubba]

I think it just happens to be that the "cool" kids who drink, are the ones that try to be "cool" by watching r rated films.

 

[Julianking93]

No, odds are that if you're just an average teenager, you're going to start drinking.

Besides, who the fuck doesn't watch R rated movies?

I've watched R rated movies all my life and I've never had one drink nor do I ever plan to.

 

[Atmos Duality]

This study is flawed.
Most of my high school class were regular boozers. It's a social thing.

I've been watching R Movies since I was 3. I rarely drink at all (in a manner of "once a month" if even that.)