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by Alec Muffett

NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms

The screen-time moral panic is not yet over, and this guy (thread) is being roasted on bluesky for selecting arbitrary experts, asking them if screen use MAY be correlated with harm, and graphing the results as if causative:

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation?This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change.See our paper: osf.io/preprints/ps…

— Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T19:25:40.769Z

Via:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480657-attempt-to-reach-expert-consensus-on-teens-and-phones-ends-in-argument/

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