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Self-reports of mental harm are not worth anything. Why do people keep quoting these useless stats?

• Aerroon 4y ago
  It doesn't matter what the stats are. The point is that that specific line is often mischaracterized to imply something that it doesn't imply.
  • 9991 4y ago
    I don’t understand what you’re saying. What does the line actually imply? And what do people think it implies? (Part of my confusion is that I don’t think the stats imply anything at all.)
    • Aerroon 4y ago
      To reiterate: 1. The article claims that Facebook's own internal research found that Instagram exacerbates mental health issues in teen girls. No surrounding context given. It implies that it's straight up harmful. 2. The actual research said that 31% of teen girls felt that Instagram made body image issues worse. 45.5% said Instagram had no impact and 22% said Instagram made it better. For the other 11 out of 12 mental health issues surveyed teen girls said that Instagram made it better, on average. They somehow read number #2, but then wrote #1 based on that. And this type of statement been repeated over and over again online.
      • 9991 4y ago
        I see. Thanks.