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Unjustified Critique of a CDC Report on Social Media Risks
Chris Ferguson's attack against the authors of a recent CDC report on risks associated with social media use by teens is neither justified nor fair.
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Perils of Flawed Meta-Analytic Methodology
Ignoring explainable heterogeneity within a 'random-effects' model can have dire consequences.
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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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A Note on a Debate about the Opioid Epidemic and Adolescent Mental Health
Jean Twenge offers good insights into parental drug abuse matters but does not fully invalidate the plausibility of substantial impacts on adolescent…
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Fundamental Flaws in Meta-Analytical Review of Social Media Experiments
Ferguson's meta-analysis obscures social media impacts on mental health because it is based on an invalid design and erroneous data.
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When Science is Seen as Sin (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
Candice Odgers and Nature insinuate that Haidt is unethical and Odgers then implies that Haidt is harming children merely by proposing his social media…
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Unreliable Narrator (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
Studies cited by Odgers to support her arguments outright undermine her assertions, raising the possibility that Nature intended her 'review' of Haidt's…
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Odgers versus Surgeon General (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
Assertions by Candice Odgers imply that the Surgeon General is incompetent and guilty of spreading unfounded fears about social media.
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The Alternate Reality of Candice Odgers (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
Odgers' review of The Anxious Generation postulates a reality in which all evidence of substantial associations between digital technologies and…
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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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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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Illusory Balance: How National Academies Trivialize Serious Risks Associated with Social Media
The report by the Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health uses factors like 'fun' and 'community' to offset harms such as…
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