If watching T.V. makes you smarter is a true statement, then all of us would watch more of it. The debate surrounding if watching television increases intelligence or decreases our intelligence, has author Dana Stevens puzzled at the very thought that this statement even makes sense. Frankly it does for Steven Johnson’s, he claims that television shows have become more and more complicated over the last two decades. While I approve of Dana Stevens opinion I believe that she doesn’t provide enough evidence to support her opinion on why watching T.V. doesn’t make you smarter. Dana Stevens author of “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” argues in counterpoint to Steven Johnsons article, “Watching T.V. makes you Smarter,” that television is simply for viewers entertainment not to make you smarter. Not only does Steven point out where Johnson’s theory is flawed but she says he doesn’t take into account the “16 minutes’ worth of commercials that interrupt any given episode and dismisses recent controversies about the programs representation of Muslim terrorists, which is a social relationship” (296). Johnson shows this importance when he says to “pay attention, make interferences, [and] track shifting social relationships.” She clearly states that Johnson’s claim that television makes you smarter is “hilariously bogus” and that the only thing it’s good at teaching you is to think about the next episode to come. While Steven admits that she does watch a good amount of T.V., she offers little of her own opinion. Steven really wants to know who gets to decide; so the question stands, what is a proper “dosage” for a young kid or a grown man or women? While it might seem that Stevens is unsure if T.V. is a “brain-liquefying poison” or a “salutary tonic,” she challenges her audience to try out Steven Johnson’s theory by “turning off the T.V. for a week and really seeing if you do get any dumber” (