Comments on: ‘Facebook = low college grades’ study hardly an A+

By: Bajaraja

Bajaraja — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:59:57 +0000

Hey now! OSU is a fine university…if you’re talking about Oregon. Oh, Ohio. Never mind then :).

Beyond that I must say that contrary to these “findings” I’ve never studied for anything. Never have, never will, and I’ve ended up with good grades.
Then again, not much to be proud of since it is American government run education we’re talking about. All you have to do is show up…most of the time.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:08:33 +0000

This study was most likely done by a student for their senior project (then published under his/her faculty advisor’s name). That would explain the small sample size. With tons of these statistical studies going on, you never know which one will catch on in the media.

By: Go Blue.

Go Blue. — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:41:43 +0000

OSU performing a useless study incorrectly. Is anyone surprised by these frivolous findings? Never start an article with the phrase “A study by Ohio State University,” because people will know it’s worthless to read except for some good humor.

By: Darwin Survivor

Darwin Survivor — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:10:43 +0000

So, does facebook hurt your grades, or do people with lower grades use facebook…?

By: GadgetNut

GadgetNut — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:44:31 +0000

So, in the end, we’re agreeing that it was an incompletely planned, and insufficiently (or badly) executed study. With appropriate apologies to Shakespeare “it is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

But I’ll bet a professor built tenure on it, and a clan of graduate assistants got class credit or pay for doing it, just the same. To add further insult to injury, the study will probably be cited by equally clueless mental midgets to their own ends, ad nauseum.

;-)