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Science reporting does itself a massive disservice publishing headlines like this, especially when the real takeaway is just "MRIs cannot see the damage done to
by sickofparadox 3y ago
Science reporting does itself a massive disservice publishing headlines like this, especially when the real takeaway is just "MRIs cannot see the damage done to children's brains with screens". Even other children know that the "ipad kids" are different and damaged in some way, my young cousin and his friends call them bots.
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- vidarh 3y agoMaybe. Or maybe the causal relationship doesn't go in the direction you assume without evidence, and maybe your cousin is just intolerant.
- sickofparadox 3y agoI can completely believe that whatever damage is being done to children by screens does not show up on an MRI scan. Having never even seen one in person, I have no assumptions about what that would look like, if the damage even manifested physically. What is plainly obvious and would take much more than a self-reported survey to disabuse me of, is the idea that excessive electronic usage screws up kids' brains, making them highly prone to anti-social behavior and likely some form of screentime addiction.
- vidarh 3y agoWhy is it "plainly obvious"? You criticize a self reported study, but offer up a self reported second hand anecdotal claim as the only alternative, without even stopping for a moment to consider other potential reasons, such as e.g. whether the causal link may go the other direction, or whether kids who get to have more screen time have less involved parents. I don't know whether this study is right. What I do know is that my observation of the people who insist it is not in this thread suggests I can't trust their reasoning about what they claim to have observed, because it fairly consistently involves illogical leaps and unsuported assumptions of causality.
- whimsicalism 3y agoReminds me of the famous Deng Xiaoping quote: “Seek truth from what your young cousin says about other children.”
- sickofparadox 3y agoOr his other famous quote "I do not care if it is a white iPad or Black iPad, it is good as long as it scrolls on Tiktok." Very wise man, that Deng.