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Questions of Sampling (Facebook Expansion Study)
The Social Media and Mental Health study is missing important information regarding sampling in the National College Health Assessment surveys.
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The Fishbowl Effect (Facebook Expansion Study)
Early Facebook environment was fundamentally distinct from those of all other major social media back in the mid-2000s as well as thereafter.
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Misrepresentation of Severe Depression (Facebook Expansion Study)
The misrepresentation of depressive episodes as severe depression is misleading and verges on absurd when the prevalence of 'severe' depression is more…
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Misleading Context (Facebook Expansion Study)
Contrary to assertions in the Social Media and Mental Health paper, mood disorders among young adults did not start rising in mid-2000s.
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Facebook Expansion: Invisible Impacts?
Why is the meteoric rise of social media invisible in 2003-2008 depression trends? And why did authors of the Facebook study completely omit all the…
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Haidt: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Evaluating causality in quasi-experiments tends to be extremely difficult and so far we have only one such study that concerns social media directly.
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Haidt: Experimental Evidence
Social media exposure or intervention experiments measuring mood disorder effects seem rather rare and lack evidence of persistent changes.
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Haidt: Longitudinal Evidence
Haidt provides barely any longitudinal evidence at all that social media might be harming girls.
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