"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 — all comparisons made by Orben and her Oxford co-author Przybylski.

Wearing glasses and having a bike both had huge effects when I was a teen! (Not sure about potatoes, though.)

Targeting teenage girls for some ‘pathology’ only makes sense if the data really support causation and crisis, and a 1% effect size isn’t it.