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Nodding along with the site until Fig 8. "Internet Addiction". If it has made up graphs like this with included the rest of the argument is likely made of false
by superkuh 1y ago
Nodding along with the site until Fig 8. "Internet Addiction". If it has made up graphs like this with included the rest of the argument is likely made of false premises too.
- AJRF 1y agoThis point is exceedingly hard to get data on! I thought a good proxy would be the prevelance of people acknowledging it as real, but maybe not. I will try replace this. Thanks for the feedback.
- superkuh 1y agoYes, it's hard to get data on 'internet addiction' because it's a meme, not a pathology. It's been brought up in committees in the DSM and other places over and over and over because the public demands their meme be addressed. And each time there are null findings. There's no such thing. It's just a commercial/scam for 'treament centers' and people's natural tendency to fear the new. Making a plot of the trajectory of this scam is nice, but it should at least be labeled properly. Talk about a thing does not a thing make.
- dash2 1y agoIt wasn't a made-up graph. It just looked at academic articles and citations on the topic. That's not an entirely stupid approach.