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Lex Fridman’s podcast with

is a must-listen. I had no idea the studies were tracking such strong correlations between social media use in kids and mental health issues. (tl;dr .15 to .22 for girls; the correlation between lead exposure and lower IQ, btw, is .09)

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I would medium warn against taking Haidt as your only voice on social media mental health. He does good work but is more pessimistic than the average researcher in the field.

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I’d like to see evidence of this? I assume you’re familiar with the Google docs where he invites researchers to post evidence for and against? Where an equivalent comprehensive doc with for and against and it concludes differently?

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(I am aware, btw, that this is still science in progress. I checked the history of the smoking -> lung cancer correlation research and know it took a decade to reach consensus. Nevertheless…)

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Yeah familiar, it’s a good doc. My general understanding is when causal studies are conducted they find minimal to 0 impact on mental health.