As consumers of information, people must develop skills of receiving information, i.e., of collecting, interpreting, testing, and applying what they receive. This is as true of consumers of television as of other media. A project designed to improve those skills met with mixed results but nonetheless raises interesting hints about larger instructional issues.
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Anderson et al. (1980) studied this question.
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