Michael Regilio

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1332: Screen Time | Skeptical Sunday · 24 May 2026 podcast

Smartphones have only been around for about 19 years.

So one of the leading voices on the smartphones aren't that bad side of the debate is Andrew Chbilsky at University of Oxford.

Now, Chbilsky's research argues that screen time shows very small, inconsistent, or in some cases, no clear association with overall well-being.

People have asked the good professor about that, and Chbilsky, he explains this by pointing out that what he calls a tech lash, basically a backlash against technology that's going on right now.

So for a while during...

He says the Arab Spring, tech was seen as a savior.

Smartphones helped young people organize protests and challenge power.

Then he points to Cambridge Analytica as a turning point.

He says suddenly people realized that there was a darker side.

So the story flipped from tech will save us to tech is destroying us.

So his argument is that when you actually dig into the research, the data does not completely support the fear.

Part of the problem is

is that screen time, and we talked about this at the top of the show, is kind of a meaningless umbrella term.

Another problem is that happiness and well-being are actually not that easy to measure.

So feeling unhappy is not the same as having a diagnosed mental health disorder.

Well, what you're voicing now is something a lot of people in the field are feeling, which is frustration.

Researchers are trying to study something that is important, but inherently opaque.

There's another paper worth mentioning here called To What Extent Are Trends in Teen Mental Health Driven by Changes in Reporting?

And that paper argues that reported increases in teen depression may be strongly shaped by changes in screening practices within psychology itself.

There's arguments on both sides and that is totally true, but.

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