Jacob Ward
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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But what we seem to get out of this University of South Florida study, and out of all kinds of other studies that we have seen, there's this, what they basically say is, I was looking at a particular study that talks about
the idea of there being a dose-response, a dose-response relationship.
And what that means is that there is, when somebody's studying the effect of something on the body, a dose-response is this idea that a certain amount of a chemical or a stimulus or a stressor in your body provokes a response.
And there is, of course, a curve in which more and more of that provokes more response, and then there's a maximum kind of response.
And what researcher after researcher has found is that a certain amount of social media given to a kid
is having an enormous, they have the kind of dose response that they would from a chemical.
And so there is clearly an effect taking place when it comes to difficulty paying attention.
Sleep is a huge issue.
Kids staying up way, way too late or not sleeping enough.
feelings of insignificance as compared to one's peers.
These things have been pretty well documented.
And in the end, we're sort of in a world where it really is clear that one could have a smartphone as a kid.
and have a perfectly healthy relationship to it.
Use it to just do research.
Use it just as a camera.
Use it for the kinds of active gathering of information and
you know, sort of processing of art and all of the kind of creative fun that we can associate with smartphones.
But there is, of course, an entire industry built on creating a passive feed for kids, just as there is for, you know, an industry for creating a passive feed for us adults that depends on trying to get as many kids into the habit of being on social media as possible.
And we know that that has a negative effect.
So when you see studies like the University of South Florida's new one, and they're about to embark on an 8,000-person long-term study, and that'll be really interesting to see what they say there, but they have clearly identified that while a smartphone by itself might not be so bad, even small amounts of social media, cyberbullying, and the other things that can come with the ownership of a phone are difficult.
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