[nixpulvis]

Ease of misinterpretation is not the problem here. It's bad actors trying to make sensational headlines for views, just like so much other News.

Most people read the headlines and move on. It doesn't hardly matter the source.

[nixpulvis]

Sorry, but upon further reflection, the whole premise of the title is nonsense. What even is technology!? You simply can't make a convincing title for this subject.

I'm not about to drop the cash to actually read this article (as you should suspect). I just know at this point anything I read on nature.com is trash.

[_tulpa]

I mean the title of the nature article is pretty much a summary of a null result, but it’s phrased in a way that is very easy to interpret as positive (or at least non-negative) wrt the effect of technology on cognition. Where I really doubt the popular interpretation of ‘cognition’ matches the scientific one. It probably ends up closer to ‘smartness’ or ‘effectiveness’ or just ‘good’.