> - Because the original premise hasn't controlled for family, we can only work with the data we have I don't think data says what you imply though > Because

> - Because the original premise hasn't controlled for family, we can only work with the data we have I don't think data says what you imply though > Because other students in the same country succeed [citation needed] The teacher in the article poses an ipothesys - he has the suspect the phones might be partially involved in the problem So he puts the hipotesys to test - he asks his students what went wrong - they answered, according to the article quotes “We don’t understand what the books say, sir. We don’t understand the words.” - he asks them to not use their phones for 9 days, offering an extra credit as a reward after the test he collected results. Among the other, I'll quote the first one > “Writing a paper and not having a phone boosted productivity at least twice as much,” Elliott claimed. “You are concentrated on one task and not worrying about anything else. Studying for a test was much easier as well because I was not distracted by the phone at all.” It looks to me that they were actually having a problem which is not their professor. > Because other students in the same educational system succeed Are they? Across the Board, Scores Drop in Math and Reading for U.S. Students https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-10-30/across-the-board-scores-drop-in-math-and-reading-for-us-students https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-10-... > Regardless, crying "my students use phones and all of them are failing" That's not what he did, what you are doing is manipulative, it's a well know bias called "false premise" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_premise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_premise