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by owisd 733 days ago
Unlike social media/smartphone usage, divorce rates don't suddenly spike in 2010 to match the spike in childhood mental health problems. Despite social media companies best efforts, there is no reasonable alternative hypothesis for what happened globally in 2010 to cause the problem.
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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/21/blaming-social-media-for...