Comment on 4 or more hours of daily screen time linked to more anxiety and depression in teens, data shows

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wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Exactly. Also, the key word in these type of studies is “linked”, which means that’s only a correlation, with no prove of causality. The way it’s written, it makes you think that the screen time causes anxiety and depression, but there are other studies that suggest the causality goes in the other direction, kids that suffer from depression tend to spend more time in social media.

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