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What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
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Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
#92> excessive screen time, defined as more than two hours a day outside of work hours. Having read Michel Desmurget's "La Fabrique du crétin digital", this sentence was moderately triggering. Has anyone here read it? I don't know if it's been translated to English yet, and I know it received some very bitter reviews [which mostly seemed beside the picture he was trying to construct from the studies he used, it seemed t…
"La Fabrique du crétin digital" was translated to English as "Screen Damage": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61723668-screen-damage
Here is an interesting review: https://www.frontiere.eu/children-and-excessive-smartphone-u...
Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
#93I'm not very confident about the quality of this study... It already begins like this: Evidence suggests that chronic sensory stimulation via excessive exposure to screen time may affect brain development in negative ways. Excessive smartphone use may increase the risk [...] Do they consider "screen time" only to be "smartphone use"? Is it better to use a tablet? Or PC / laptop? What if I use a 6.7" screen with my co…
Jesus, isn't it at least a bit obvious? OK so let's call it 'interactive screen time'. No, reading ebook doesn't count, as long as you don't keep switching to something else frequently. It will mess up your eyes worse than physical book, but that's about it. I can see the proper cancer that screens cause to small children development. Heck, some parents are proud how 'digital' their kids are, like scrolling through s…
A bit tangential but how does a digital book mess up your eyes? Or a physical one.
I don’t think reading has any effect on your eyesight.
People are quick nowadays (or always have been) to bring out the good old „todays kids are rotten to the core“ trope - just because it’s now you who is old and doesn’t get how the world moved on, doesn’t mean it’s any different to the centuries of complaining about the youth before us.
I wasted thousands of hours as a kid on unproductive stuff - I don’t see it as being much different to what kids do today.
Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
#94I'm not very confident about the quality of this study... It already begins like this: Evidence suggests that chronic sensory stimulation via excessive exposure to screen time may affect brain development in negative ways. Excessive smartphone use may increase the risk [...] Do they consider "screen time" only to be "smartphone use"? Is it better to use a tablet? Or PC / laptop? What if I use a 6.7" screen with my co…
I'd guess that you can equate "screen time" to "smartphone use" in most of the population but here. Similar to what people are using the screen for. To include so many variations of screen would complicate a lot the study, and without a prior about why it should matter, you are probably safer starting with something more homogeneous.
> I'd guess that you can equate "screen time" to "smartphone use" in most of the population but here. Similar to what people are using the screen for.
I'm fairly confident this is not a safe assumption.
> To include so many variations of screen would complicate a lot the study
How so, though?
> without a prior about why it should matter, you are probably safer starting with something more homogeneous.
That's not very scientific, is it? There's no prior as to why it shouldn't matter, which is what the authors seem to think.
Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
#95This is Stanford? Where is the research?
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#98“One of the biggest issues with picking up the phone right away in the morning is that when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler. “You wouldn’t want to wake up and look a bear in the face every morning. On a physiological level, it’s the same thing.” This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at m…
That quote made me lose interest in anything that article had to say. It's such a ridiculous claim to say that everything that is close to my face is automatically registered as a threat, and I bet that 99.99% of things that regularly gets close to peoples faces (even disregarding smartphones from that statistic) are actually not threats at all. I don't think it makes evolutionary sense at all since it would cause us to perceive our babies and food as threats too.
Either that quote is taken wildly out of context or the interviewed therapist is full of shit.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
LED backlight might. If no backlight probably fine.
What about yellow(ish) backlight? I switched to Kobo bc of that
IIRC, most of the evidence regarding screens before bed being detrimental were focused on the "blue light" thing, so a warmer light is probably better.
(I think the science behind blue light being bad for us is still up for debate, but it's hard for me to ignore the amount of anecdata I've heard, including my own experience using flux and the like)
Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
#100I'm not very confident about the quality of this study... It already begins like this: Evidence suggests that chronic sensory stimulation via excessive exposure to screen time may affect brain development in negative ways. Excessive smartphone use may increase the risk [...] Do they consider "screen time" only to be "smartphone use"? Is it better to use a tablet? Or PC / laptop? What if I use a 6.7" screen with my co…
Jesus, isn't it at least a bit obvious? OK so let's call it 'interactive screen time'. No, reading ebook doesn't count, as long as you don't keep switching to something else frequently. It will mess up your eyes worse than physical book, but that's about it. I can see the proper cancer that screens cause to small children development. Heck, some parents are proud how 'digital' their kids are, like scrolling through s…
Try figuring out how to not get worked up over a random post next.