
Daniel Keating
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Daniel Keating
@keatingd
UMich Psych Developmental Area Chair & ISR Research Professor, author Born Anxious https://t.co/aywFBWvI8v







🧵i tweeted this a few months ago and got ✨dragged✨but the real question i was asking is: where do we hear about the pain and inner lives of men? i asked a male friend this question and he replied, "no one wants to hear about men's inner lives." /1

@gmiller @keatingd It genuinely baffles me to. I've tried to press a few people on it since even the nature review, for example, was so clearly insufficient to prove her point. All of the alternative factors were just as badly justified, if not worse. Yet nobody seems to mention it.

Couldn't agree more! And it's not just structural issues beyond phones/social media that are downplayed, it's structural issues *about phones/social media* that are ignored... e.g., Haidt himself cites data on gender effects, why do you think girls have worse experiences online?

I'm also open-minded on this. Part of it is due to limitations in current experimental methods, which are *not* designed to track a small effect that accumulates over time. For example, see the revised conclusion that small amts of alcohol can have long-term health risks. (1/2)

If Haidt's book were titled "phones/social media are bad sometimes" then this would be good evidence, but it's not. He's making grand claims about "rewiring" of kids brains, then large causal claims about societal shifts, then calling for significant government intervention...


@Candice_Odgers shares an excellent review of a controversial book that gets things wrong on an important topic. If you study or care about youth and adolescent health in the digital age, please give this one a read. #digitalwellbeing #youthmentalhealth nature.com/articles/d4158…

@Candice_Odgers shares an excellent review of a controversial book that gets things wrong on an important topic. If you study or care about youth and adolescent health in the digital age, please give this one a read. #digitalwellbeing #youthmentalhealth nature.com/articles/d4158…

Plato's allegory of the cave as a metaphor for misinterpretation and potential bias of projecting high dimensional data into low dimensional space?


