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Recommended reading for anyone following the debate around social media and mental health

@Andrew___Baker I hated being infantilized as a PhD student. It’s like, dude, I’m a grown-ass adult. I have kids, a mortgage, and male-pattern balding. Stop treating me as though I’m some vulnerable child that needs protecting.

This is wild

This offer is still on. If you’re interested in the real science of screen time effects, this is the book you want, and for less than the price of a small coffee.

I just experienced this so had to meme about it

Meta-analysis: "A social media abstinence does not make you feel less bad – it at most makes you feel a little better." "Abstaining from social media has become a popular digital disconnection strategy of individuals to enhance their well-being. To date, it is unclear whether

Whenever I see sudden and significant shifts in trends like this I automatically think “Probably measurement non-invariance.” Am I the only one?

If you hang out at the other place, come find me there

We're so excited that the first paper from our Adolescent & Family Screenome Study is published! In this paper we used multiple metrics to compare the objective vs self-reported smartphone use (overall and specific app categories) among teens & parents. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This does sound like a hard problem to solve. Good thing there’s a super-intelligent AGI available to solve it for us.

"Although reported suicidal behaviors rose 233% from 2006-2021, the true rise in mental health disorders is less than 30-50%." nber.org/papers/w33550?…

If both screen time (incl. social media) and bad stuff (like mental distress) are correlated w/ low-income, it will look like screen time causes the bad stuff. When in reality, it’s actually due to being low-inclme. Kinda like what I talked about here: x.com/cjsewall9/stat…

Sam Rockwell: (finishes lengthy monologue) Waiter: So…yes to another chamomile tea? #WhiteLotus

Ultimately, this is what this whole “debate” comes down to. There’s the science and then there’s narrative/vibes. The narrative camp rejects the science if it goes against their vibes and vice versa.

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) Trump has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as a global pandemic.

Can’t spell pope without “ope.” This midwestern pontiff gets it

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.