Prof. Candice Odgers shares an excellent review of a controversial book that gets things wrong on an important topic. If you study or care about youth and adolescent health in the digital age, please give this one a read.
#digitalwellbeing#adolescentmentalhealthwww.nature.com/articles/d41...
"...this book is going to sell a lot of copies, because Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story about children’s development that many parents are primed to believe."
The anatomy of a grift.
I’m actually more interested in how smartphone devices seem to be reducing the influence of the much older technology of print. On the flip side, there’s no literacy barrier, so perhaps access to ideas is more open now.
The corollary is that when an association is hard to prove, yet theoretically likely, and harms would outweigh benefit...the best action is to put caution first.
