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I never said that plays should ONLY be seen and not read. I've seen many students who learn to hate Shakespeare by being forced to read it in school. I think that students will have a greater appreciation of Shakespeare by first watching it. Some of them will then want to read Shakespeare afterward.
No one claimed that paranormal romance was the zenith of mental exercise. I mentioned Twilight, but I did so as an example of something far from the zenith of mental exercise. The author talked about trashy novels, but didn't define what constituted trash. As far as I could tell, the potshot at trashy novels came from the author of the article, rather than from the people who performed the study.
I have made no suppositions about the data. I'm not claiming the study is biased, merely that the evidence shown in the article is insufficient to back up the claims. I am not saying the claims are wrong, merely that further research would be required. The people who conducted the study may be completely correct, I just don't think there's enough evidence to merit the conclusion at this point.
That disagreements over how Shakespeare should be taught or whether some other literature should be taught instead - there is plenty of other worthy literature - have been going on for a long time does not mean they are invalid.
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