No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
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Re: No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
#2The title is misleading. This is not about child cognitive development, merely just some brain imaging. In short, the MRI method can not see the effects of screen time. This is of course a good thing but does mean nothing about cognitive development.
From the abstract of the article [1]:
We studied a [...] sample of young people [...] (ages 9–12 years) to investigate the relations between self-reported use of various digital screen media activity (SMA) and functional brain organization. [...] Of principal interest were two hypotheses: First, that functional brain organization (assessed through resting state functional connectivity MRI; rs-fcMRI) is related to digital screen engagement; and second, that children with higher rates of engagement will have functional brain organization profiles related to maladaptive functioning. Results did not support either of these predictions for SMA.
1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001094522...
Re: No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
#3People stop trusting science when they are asked to believe "research" findings which are obviously not true.
Re: No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
#4“Safe and effective”
Re: No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
#5I forgot where I read that but I remember a neuroscientist studying the impact of TV on learning abilities saying that it is much better to leave a child in a silent room with no stimulation and a dumb toy than putting them in front of a TV program with a lot of cuts and making loud noises. It interrupts their thought process every time there is an abrupt visual or audio change and the baby thinking is reset.
Re: No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
#6Absence of evidence != Evidence of Absence
Re: No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
#7I forgot where I read that but I remember a neuroscientist studying the impact of TV on learning abilities saying that it is much better to leave a child in a silent room with no stimulation and a dumb toy than putting them in front of a TV program with a lot of cuts and making loud noises. It interrupts their thought process every time there is an abrupt visual or audio change and the baby thinking is reset.
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Re: No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
#8People stop trusting science when they are asked to believe "research" findings which are obviously not true.
Obviously not true, or does not fit your biased priors?
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#9Re: No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
#10Science reporting does itself a massive disservice publishing headlines like this, especially when the real takeaway is just "MRIs cannot see the damage done to children's brains with screens". Even other children know that the "ipad kids" are different and damaged in some way, my young cousin and his friends call them bots.