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Health Effects
In the Parent Circle, by PC exclusives, Dr. Priscilla J S Selvaraj points out several benefits of watching TV on an educational level and on an emotional level. She explains that it can, "... be used... both at home as well as in classrooms. With the range of channels on offer, there is no dearth [lack] of educational content." In addition to these benefits watching television brings awareness to their society, and can also help people become bilingual. Because they are learning things outside the classroom, it is making things easier for children inside it. This creates happiness and can raise the energy too. Being energetic and happy allows your body to be more active. More activity makes people healthier.

Emotionally, watching television can help strengthen the bond of a family. This being said spending time with family or loved ones can cause your body to release endorphins that make you happier as well.

Educational Disadvantages
We discussed that watching television is a powerful and effective learning tool for children, but we have not discussed the educational disadvantages watching television brings. Television causes kids to do more watching and less reading. As a matter of fact in June of 2019, "...Norway, and a handful of other developed countries, average I.Q. scores have declined slightly in recent years..." This is a big devastation to Norway considering they are the 12th smartest country in the world. In addition this is data collected in 2020, so since last year Norway has probably dropped a few places. Anyways, Norway addressed the problem by publishing, "In an academic article published this year, the Norwegian economist Oystein Hernaes and his co-authors attributed some of this decline in I.Q. scores to access to cable television, which also coincided with a sharp decline in reading." Television caused a sharp decline in their IQ scores because their time spent reading keeps gradually decreasing while their time spent watching increases. So even though television can be a good educational tool, it can also distract us from doing homework, reading, or even studying.

= Gender and Television (I am adding more to this section) = In August of 2007, television was helping the woman of India by giving them female empowerment. In a Survey from 2001 to 2003, "Indian Women don't have a lot of control over their lives. More than half need permission from their husbands to go shopping." India Women were expected to be the traditional house wife that cooked, cleaned, and give birth to many of their kids. But around that time cable television had arrived in Indian villages. One of their most popular shows was where, "Their emancipated female characters are well-educated, work outside the home, control their own money, and have fewer children than rural women." The women's attitudes that had access to the television changes profoundly. For example, "After a village got cable, women’s preference for male children fell by 12 percentage points. The average number of situations in which women said that wife beating is acceptable fell by about 10 percent. And the authors’ composite autonomy index jumped substantially, by an amount equivalent to the attitude difference associated with 5.5 years of additional education." By giving India women access to cable television it opened their eyes to see what their life could be like. It is said they should call it the "Empowerment Box" because of the awareness it brought to their country.

= Diversity and Television = Throughout the years Television and technology is always changing, and how people of color and the LGBTQ community are viewed has made big strides as well. In 2018 with new shows coming out, "...like Insecure, Master of None, black-ish, Fresh off the Boat and nearly every show in Shondland, diversity, and intersectionality are on the rise when it comes to television." This is proven by seeing the votes of people change from 2015 to 2017 about favorite characters. For example, "For characters of color, there was a 20% increase, jumping from 15% of the overall favorite characters in 2015, to 18% of the favorite character vote in 2017." This means that not only are people of color becoming more seen, but they are also becoming more popular and equal. Even though the numbers aren't significantly big, the colored community are still taking forward steps in television. However in the LGBTQ community, "TV Time saw a 57% increase in LGBTQ favorite character votes. According to their rankings, LGBTQ characters make up 11% of the top 100 characters in 2017." Some have a LGBTQ character within the show, or some actors are like that outside the show. All in all, diversity and television keeps growing.