The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a decline in television viewing, since it had been assumed that people lack sufficient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: in a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers report no change in time spent watching television.
In order to evaluate the argument, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?
E.Whether the survey respondents' reports of time spent using computers included time spent using computers at work
我的理解 玩电脑的时间增加就会导致看电视的时间减少,因为我们缺乏足够的FREE TIME去在增加玩电脑时间的同时保持看电视的时间。这个结论是错误的(原文的结论就是人们没有缺乏FREE TIME去一边玩电脑一边看电视)
E 花在电脑上的时间是否包括工作的时间
包括,FFREE TIME没有减少,对结论是支持的;不包括,FREE TIME 减少了,的确不能维持一边玩电脑同时看电视的时间不变。
我看了很多解释 说得是 回答YES,花在电脑上的时间不导致空余时间减少,对文章结论是不支持的。这里和我想的不一样,能解释一下吗?
我想这个题目的关键就是找的什么事结论,看了很多遍,觉得自己找的结论没有错呀~作者: cclovelife 时间: 2013-4-1 21:25
in a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers report no change in time spent watching television.
他这里没有说用电脑是不是在工作上时间。如果是在工作时间,That assumption, however, is evidently false这句结论就是错的啦
还有people lack sufficient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer我理解这句话的意思应该是没有充分的时间既可以既看电视又增加玩电脑的时间,这两件事不是同时进行的。作者: songxueb 时间: 2013-4-3 22:05
作者的结论是“That assumption, however, is evidently false”。而the assumpiton is "people lack sufficient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer". 这一假定,为了方便讨论,我们把它理解为“别人”的观点。而作者在证明自己的观点时,使用的论据是“In a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers report no change in time spent watching television”。“别人”的观点认为用电脑和看电视都只能发生在“free time”, 而free time是定长的。所以认为,玩电脑的时间增加了,自然看电视的时间要减少。
作者认为这个假定不正确,并且引用了一个survey作为论据:调查显示,用电脑时间增加的人并没有减少看电视的时间。