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While trying to go a bit deeper into the sources, they honestly feel extremely weak... An example of how negative impact on the brain is backed: https://link.
by makeitdouble 2y ago
While trying to go a bit deeper into the sources, they honestly feel extremely weak...
An example of how negative impact on the brain is backed:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-019-00182-2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-019-00182-2
From the abstract:
> we systematically identified articles meeting the following inclusion criteria: published in English between January 1999–July 2019; human or animal subjects; primary and secondary sources including original research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, and narrative reviews. Primary search terms focused on “smartphone,” “mental health,” “substance use,” “neurodevelopment,” and “neurodegeneration”; secondary search terms focused on “social media,” “anxiety,” “cannabis,” and “dementia”.
They basically went fishing for studies that focus on the negative impacts, came back with enough content and packaged it as a meta-study. This sure could show some negative traits potentially associated with screen time. But that's very far from justifying TFA's title, worded as a causation, and not some random association when singling out pathological subjects.
- bjornsing 2y agoYeah and it’s not hard to come up with a hypothesis with reverse causation: people struggling with mental health tend to (on average) live more solitary lives with more screen time.
- karma_fountain 2y agoAlso people watching five hours of TV a day maybe aren't doing too much exercise.
- joenot443 2y agoThe author's fairly active elsewhere online, looks like she's a "Health Coach" at UC San Diego with a MS in Kinesiology. This isn't science journalism, it's closer to influencer health blogging. My impression is that the author doesn't have a background in technical writing and probably wrote this for an audience different from the typical HN crowd.