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A 1985 report of a Berkeley study found computer aversion and low voluntary use among sampled grades 3–7 students, but it did not study high-school students or establish a deliberate large-scale boycott of personal computers. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Study Finds Computers’ Popularity Overstated · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:6e389dae1de134724e09fb8900d4ae07edb5e211668c3eaa1faff75af6516d8d

The typical student views computers as another “academic drudgery” ... students prefer not to use computers during their free time ... The students from grades 3 through 7 ... attended two public schools ... Forty-three percent of the 4th graders and only 14 percent of the 7th graders said they had ever used computers during their free time.