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Don't Blame Plunging Birthrates on Phones
- xnx 4mo agohttps://archive.ph/qwK73 https://archive.ph/qwK73
- evil-olive 4mo agoyeah, the study this is criticizing [0] is extremely flawed - it tries to treat "parts of the country that got access to the AT&T-exclusive original iPhone" as a natural experiment, but that falls apart because "what parts of the country have the best AT&T coverage" is a terrible natural experiment, it ignores that AT&T service areas are not random, but subject to the same confounding variables that influence birth rates. but at the same time, I don't trust this author to come up with a better explanation for anything to do with fertility or birthrates. her byline at the top of the article: > a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and then buried at the bottom of the article: > a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444543
- RattlesnakeJake 4mo agohttps://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/