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Some Notes on Two 'Community Notes'
Of the two Community Notes that appeared under Haidt’s 'multi-week SM experiments' tweet, the first was outright misinformation while the second is at…
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David Stein
Social Media Experiments and Weighted Averages
Recent criticisms of Haidt & Rausch are based on the mistaken notion that the application of a random effects model would somehow contradict their…
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Falsehood and No Consequences (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
The review of Haidt's new book by Candice Odgers may be a sign of an ongoing transition of Nature from science to ideology.
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David Stein
Criticism Is A Double-Edged Sword
The purpose of this Substack newsletter was always criticism -- not the defense of tech. This is why its focus may shift for a while away from 'enemies…
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The Fallacy of Requiring a Single Cause
Jean Twenge relies on the presumption of a single primary cause when she promotes smartphones proliferation as the main cause of several adolescent…
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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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David Stein
Haidt: Experimental Evidence
Social media exposure or intervention experiments measuring MH 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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David Stein
Haidt: Social Media in O&P Paper
Haidt does not fully understand the primary flaws of a 2019 paper by Orben & Przybylski and misinforms readers about its contents when attempting to use…
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Haidt: Social Media Associations with Harm
Haidt offers only one study showing elevated risks for girls; furthermore, his argumentation is problematic and contains serious errors.
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Screen Time circa 2015
Adolescent screen time circa 2015 was dominated by viewing entertainment and playing games -- not by the time spent on social media sites like Facebook…
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