Another moral panic bites the dust.
Data from more than 17,000 teenagers show little evidence of a relationship between screen time and well-being in adolescents. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, casts doubt on the widely accepted notion that spending time online, gaming, or watching TV, especially before bedtime, can damage young people's mental health.
Every new technology that comes out has this said about it. Comic books, television, pinball, arcade games, video games, the internet, and most recently "Screen Time" were all going to rot the brains of the younger generation. Every single time it turns out to be bullshit.
You'd think people would learn.
The Phantom
Well, YOU'D think. And so would many others. But evidently not nearly enough.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the line? "Every right-thinking person supports you." "That's not enough, we need a majority."
Right? We learned, didn't we? And really, it wasn't that hard.
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