Hard but I wouldn't say impossible. Some designs have the control group reduce social media use for 1-2 days to create the sense of also being involved in a manipulation. You could a also create the belief that the controls (use as normal) are being compared to an *increased* use condition
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Happy to see our registered replication paper out led by Nathan Pond as part of his PhD with Ryan Scott, @drpatclarke.bsky.social and Lies Notebaert. See more of Nathan's work here: www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-po...
I am all for holding these companies to the highest standards for their potentially dangerous products. But, I did not see anything in that article to support the claim that 'AI can exacerbate mental health issues'
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
"Our analysis of a quarter of a million days of objective smartphone usage across over 10,000 diverse adult participants reveals little evidence for strong bidirectional associations between mental well-being and smartphone use."
Looks more like my mother scolding me for some reason
i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked
Kids with ‘developmental delay’ will be diverted from the #NDIS. But what is a #developmentaldelay?
See our (with @suze-freogirl.bsky.social) recent piece in #TheConversation for an overview of this term, and which children are affected by funding changes.
Read here: lnkd.in/ggh2Qpr4
I had the pleasure of chatting with Gareth King for his podcast series 'Ruined By The Internet' where we discussed the evidence about the ways in which our digital behaviour has and not impacted our attention and focus
Nikkei found academics had written "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives" in white text or tiny font on 17 preprints to combat AI peer reviews.
asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
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I get the concern but I don't think the numbers bear it out. Current bitcoin market cap is $3.2 trillion, largest stablecoin (Tether) is about 240 billion. Even if all of Tether was unbacked and all of it up in bitcoin, it would barely be a 7.5% drop
Curious which bit you see as the bubble. Sounded like a lot of this was adding regulation (and legitimacy) to issuers of 'stablecoins' which are usually pegged to the USD (and so stay pretty stable compared to all the meme crypto coins)
I love it that Alan Kohler is sticking with his coverage of the #HousingCrisis in #Auspol ... "Having the most expensive housing in the world, can't go on!" Have to 1000% agree with him... ALP you were given a mandate for a reason, do something substantive about this! youtu.be/-iEQRXi8OTA?...
This is pretty shattering. Did my work experience as a deckie out to the rowley shoals when I was 16. Such an incredible and rare place
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
...to which the clueless pessimist respond by saying that AI is nothing more than the latest Silicon Valley pyramid scheme. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle and it's going to be fun to watch this bubble pop like 2001 or explode into the singularity"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd6F...
A little code specific but very much resonated with the conclusion of this:
"It seems like everywhere you go on the internet right now you'll find clueless optimists is saying that 90% of white collar work will be eliminated by AI within the next 5 years....
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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This is what evidence-based thinking should be like, namely attentive mixing of statistical and mechanistic analysis, taking full account of moral stakes. Bravo and thanks to @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
Big fan of your work. I have no love for the companies and wd welcome regulation but the research on this just doesn’t bear out the narrative that social media use has a consistent negative impact on wellbeing. A good recent summary of the the science is available here: www.jmir.org/2024/1/e59585
You might have at least one ABC ally in Alan Kohler
Meanwhile, in Europe👇
Scott, any thoughts on retaliatory tariffs that would be used to equivalently compensate steel producers - e.g. spread across different product lines (e.g. Teslas, bourbon....). I guess bottom line would be that consumers would still be paying more for stuff overall
Simple logic, they can just buy the water from the farmers and let the people eat yellowcake
Wresting the core tenets of stoicism from the superchuds
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to delivering the cheapest power with the lowest carbon footprint is better left to a competition of ideas in the general market. Thoughts?
Ah, ok. So more the general principle that govt should be involved in delivery of essential services (power water etc). I guess I had thought that govt is important for base infrastructure (grid etc) which could make some otherwise non-viable projects viable but that finding creative solutions…
