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I feel it’s obvious in some respect that if “screen time” means TikTok or YouTube binging then there’s probably something more developmentally useful you could
by usgroup 3y ago
I feel it’s obvious in some respect that if “screen time” means TikTok or YouTube binging then there’s probably something more developmentally useful you could be doing.
That screen time might lead to a maladaptive brain as evidence by MRI, strikes me as an extreme effect. I’d be curious to know what else this experimental design had been applied to in the past and whether it’s at all commensurate with this purpose.
- hutzlibu 3y agoYeah, screen time != screen time. I noticed a very different result, when I consciously watched some selected videos together with my boy vs. setting him loose with a smartphone in his hand.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoEven within the realm of (say) YouTube, I'd expect a difference between "Khan Academy math lesson" and "Funniest Kicks In the Gonads Compilation". I agree with others here (and elsewhere) that "screen time" is way too coarse-grained to be useful. It's as if people back in the '60s were doing research on "paper time", lumping looking at porn magazines or pop star fan magazines together with reading physics textbooks.