Jonathan Haidt
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Young women were the first to get hit.
Now, we'll talk about boys later because they're hit in a different way.
But yeah, if you focus on young women, I think the evidence of causality is now very strong and from multiple sources.
But here's the other thing.
We're all confined to the correlational studies, the longitudinal studies, the experiments, and the natural experiments.
Those are the four areas that we psychologists argue about.
but there's so much more evidence, okay?
First, what do the kids themselves say?
When you talk to older Gen Z and you survey them, are they grateful that they're digital natives?
Do they look back and say, wow, social media was great?
No, they do not.
A lot of them regret it.
Very few are grateful to it.
So I'm curious why that is.
Well, no, I haven't heard numbers that low recently.
The most recent Pew that I heard was, I can't remember, it was 20 or 30% of girls said it harmed their mental health.
There are different surveys.
But look, if you put a consumer product out into the world that 30% of the girls who use it say, this has harmed me, any other field, any other industry, they'd be sued to death.
But this one had a special exemption from Congress that nobody could sue them until this year we finally got one case through and there will be many more to follow.
But just to finish up on the evidence,
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