<story><title>Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?</title><url>http://nautil.us//blog/studies-shoot-down-techs-harmful-effects-on-kidsso-now-what</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etiam</author><text>Tendentious language.&lt;p&gt;Who actually worries about children&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;well-being&amp;quot; (in the short term) being impaired by too much iDevices?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world.
The kids themselves may not be particularly &lt;i&gt;unhappy&lt;/i&gt; about losing those skills as long as mummy and daddy earn the money, serve the meals and drive them to daycare, but long term it&amp;#x27;s a major blow to their lives as independent individuals and the vitality of society, if the risk proves to realize itself to actual problems.&lt;p&gt;Weird stance to effectively advocate unfettered full-scale testing at high stakes just because the &amp;quot;has never been conclusive evidence that screens are a direct cause of harm&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pithymaxim</author><text>Worth mentioning that their summary measure of well-being is more comprehensive than what&amp;#x27;s typically asked of adults and probably does correlate with learning and development:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Data from 19,957 telephone interviews with parents of 2‐ to 5‐year‐olds assessed their children&amp;#x27;s digital screen use and psychological well‐being in terms of caregiver attachment, resilience, curiosity, and positive affect in the past month.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;full&amp;#x2F;10.1111&amp;#x2F;cdev.13007&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;full&amp;#x2F;10.1111&amp;#x2F;cdev.13007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still plenty to quibble with in the study though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?</title><url>http://nautil.us//blog/studies-shoot-down-techs-harmful-effects-on-kidsso-now-what</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etiam</author><text>Tendentious language.&lt;p&gt;Who actually worries about children&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;well-being&amp;quot; (in the short term) being impaired by too much iDevices?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world.
The kids themselves may not be particularly &lt;i&gt;unhappy&lt;/i&gt; about losing those skills as long as mummy and daddy earn the money, serve the meals and drive them to daycare, but long term it&amp;#x27;s a major blow to their lives as independent individuals and the vitality of society, if the risk proves to realize itself to actual problems.&lt;p&gt;Weird stance to effectively advocate unfettered full-scale testing at high stakes just because the &amp;quot;has never been conclusive evidence that screens are a direct cause of harm&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crooked-v</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world.&lt;p&gt;Correlation is not causation.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re taking it given that tech is a cause of that, but it may well be that other trends are driving kids to be indoors and separated from their peers (see various &amp;quot;mother gets arrested for letting child walk half a mile to a park&amp;quot; news stories), with tech merely filling the gap of lost activities.</text></comment>