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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.
Apr 17
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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…
Apr 15
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Criticism Is A Double-Edged Sword
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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…
Nov 18, 2023
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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.
Sep 27, 2023
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David Stein
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Questions of Sampling (Facebook Expansion Study)
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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.
Sep 14, 2023
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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…
Sep 8, 2023
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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.
Sep 6, 2023
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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…
Sep 4, 2023
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Facebook Expansion: Invisible Impacts?
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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.
Aug 27, 2023
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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.
Aug 25, 2023
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Haidt: Longitudinal Evidence
Haidt provides barely any longitudinal evidence at all that social media might be harming girls.
Aug 23, 2023
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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…
Aug 22, 2023
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