April 24, 2009
Facebook, Grades, and Media Hype Hype
A researcher at Ohio State University has found that students who use Facebook reported earning lower grade-point averages than nonusers of the social-networking service. But the researcher, Aryn C. Karpinski, said in an interview with The Chronicle that she did not have enough data to determine whether Facebook use causes students to do poorly in their studies, despite a string of media reports that she says overstate her findings.
Ms. Karpinski, a doctoral student in the university's
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