I think the potatoes effect helps make clear that this may all be noise
Yes, they describe problems with the instrument design, data, and bias in the podcast episode too
A huge effect on AWESOMENESS
Targeting teenage girls for some āpathologyā only makes sense if the data really support causation and crisis, and a 1% effect size isnāt it.
"A teenagers' technology use can only explain less than 1% of variation in well-being," Orben says. "It's so small that it's surpassed by whether a teenager wears glasses to school," or rides a bicycle, or eats potatoes ā all comparisons made by Orben and her Oxford co-author Przybylski.
āEntrepreneurialā social panics by people like Jon Haidt (not his first) with āa massive press campaign, two massive popular-press book campaignsā are finally being discussed out loudā¦loved this: freakonomics.com/podcast/is-s...
Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think? - Freakonomics
Another shoe just dropped in the ongoing Dan Ariely scandal: JMR, a top 4 marketing journal, has issued a formal āExpression of Concernā for Mazar, Amir, & Ariely (2008), the infamous Ten Commandments study š§µ
Big ideas are brewing in Iceland. Grateful for this discussion of Power & Sexual Harassment, organized by Gender Studies Professor Thorgerdur Jennyjardottir EinarsdĆ³t, at the University of Iceland. š®šø
Iām a big fan of the rare article showing that cognition relates directly to an individualās survival, like this new one: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cognitive abilities are hypothesized to affect survival and life span in nonhuman animals. However, most tests of this hypothesis have relied on interspecific comparisons of indirect measures of cogni...