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School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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Re: School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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Post by guerrilla »

jorisboris wrote: post #181
andrei_says_ wrote: post #119

I bought something called brick which lets me lock some apps with a Bluetooth app. I have to walk to a different room and touch my phone to the little cube magneted to my fridge in order to unlock them. Just this extra friction has halved my screen time. No phone in bed no phone while I’m working and no phone on weekends while I’m bored. Instant improvement in mental clarity and quality of life.

My best ideas come in my bed Ideally I have a kale phone to note them Because it’s too easy to go to social after I noted down my idea

You do know paper exists, right? ;)

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Post by blitzar »

card_zero wrote: post #177

> Interestingly, the research didn’t show significant improvements in cognitive ability; the phone ban group showed a modest 3% boost in working memory, and there were no improvements in sustained attention. Researchers suggest that these results might mean that changes in cognitive ability could take longer than the study period of 21 days to materialise. Notice how they had decided beforehand what they were going t…

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Post by Almondsetat »

szszrk wrote: post #226
nothrabannosir wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think bawolff was being sarcastic

Which just shows that communicating through sarcasm brings more harm than benefit. I know, I'm guilty. Currently on "sarcasm rehab" for the sake of people around me and myself.

a single anecdote doesn't "show" anything

Re: School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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Post by guerrilla »

Taek wrote: post #180
babyoil wrote: post #157

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All the replies under this comment sound like shameless advertising

I feel like we're getting closer to the moment where all high quality discussion will be locked behind invite only forums. (anyone can read, need an invite to write) I can't really think of any other solution to the prevalence of bots as it gets easier and cheaper to write human seeming content

What's going to stop advertisers and propagandists from paying off those forum gatekeepers? Unless they're already wealthy or monks, they're going to be trivial to corrupt and the content will be even more effective!

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Post by blitzar »

protocolture wrote: post #124

If the goal of schooling is to improve sleep and mood, they should also include giving up school entirely for 21 days as a control.

They try it every year in the summer. It has significant negative effects on all the parents involved.

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Post by blitzar »

m00x wrote: post #15

I feel like giving teachers and schools more freedoms to implement these things would be a great overall effect. We've seen a large reduction of what teachers are able to do in the last few decades because the school districts have continuously pushed bad policies to protect them against liability and extra work. My parents were both in the school system and every year they would get more rules to protect the distric…

> giving teachers and schools more freedoms

Sounds like socialism (/s)

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Post by lanternfish »

guerrilla wrote: post #254
Taek wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like we're getting closer to the moment where all high quality discussion will be locked behind invite only forums. (anyone can read, need an invite to write) I can't really think of any other solution to the prevalence of bots as it gets easier and cheaper to write human seeming content

What's going to stop advertisers and propagandists from paying off those forum gatekeepers? Unless they're already wealthy or monks, they're going to be trivial to corrupt and the content will be even more effective!

you pay them in the only resource known to humanity to be worth more than money - petty forum power predicated on exclusivity.

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Post by 8note »

card_zero wrote: post #201
it_citizen wrote: post #199

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Hypothesize then experiment

Uh-huh. You have a conjecture, you test it, and then you say "looks like reality didn't match our conjecture, the conjecture must be wrong." Except here they got a negative result and said "reality must be wrong". It's a determined effort to find specific results.

thats also a part of the scientific method.

you dont believe the results you get, so you keep designing an collecting data from more experiments until you cant deny it anymore

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