This headline is total trash The article is not awful, but I still disagree almost entirelypic.twitter.com/tbn2oGImYA
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This, for example. There's a great deal of research into how mobile phones 'might be' doing damage, true, but MOST OF IT IS NEGATIVE Generally speaking, they probably aren't that bad for either of these problemspic.twitter.com/zJfR9vMfGp
And then this argument, about opportunity costs The problem here is that this assumes that there's something intrinsically more valuable about talking to complete strangers than looking things up, which I would regard with a great deal of skepticismpic.twitter.com/7BiWrpPexq
And finally the solution: put the phone down, because a study of 174 undergraduates found that people who socialize without phones were happier than those who socialized with phones I can see dozens of reasons that might be true that have nothing to do with phones!pic.twitter.com/jI1JRlg2m8
To name just one, maybe people who were socializing and using phones were doing so because they were socializing with people that they didn't actually enjoy spending time with
Even if true, it assumes “non-digital” is for some reason inherently better than “digital”...which may or may not be true but seems like an updated form of the natural fallacy.
Absolutely, I think that this argument is almost entirely a natural fallacy of that kind
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