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8noteyesterday at 10:24 PM1 replyview on HN

but also, you have to distinguish from "society has separately become anti-child"

which also did happen through the nineties and 2000s before social media, but how would you measure the effects of each on their own?


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paytonjjonesyesterday at 10:53 PM

As is common in social science, it's really challenging to disentangle this kind of thing. But there are ways you can get at it.

One clever example discussed in the blog I linked:

> We also found five studies that used a similar design applied to the rollout of high-speed internet. It’s hard to have a phone-based childhood when data speeds are very low. So what happened in Spain as fiber optic cables were laid and high-speed internet came to different regions at different times?

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epi...