We can't resolve our ambivalence about this issue. Different Strokes Parks' research has confirmed differences in viewing habits based on gender, class, race, education and other social conditions that she does not find surprising. Poor families watch more TV than affluent ones, African Americans and Latinos watch more than Caucasians across all economic levels. African Americans, Parks believes, appear to be bicultural in this way and learn as well by hearing as by seeing. White students, on the other hand, learn better from visual and written material.
Women watch more TV, and watch in a more involved way than men.
They come in, sit in their chair, pick up the remote and look for something they want to watch. Most likely they will find three or four things, and jump back and forth between them. That drives women crazy, because they're trying to follow a narrative. You see the point of conflict. African Americans also watch almost entirely different content, Parks found.