When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone

Post by kgwxd » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #95

Klinky wrote: post #74

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No one can really even define what a Millennial is, or who falls in to Generation Y/Z. Even "who is a Boomer?", and the tropes of what a Boomer is, fail when looking at my anecdotal data. Also often activist children are heavily influenced by their activist parents. Generational classification and "analysis" is almost as bad as stereotypes.

Unlike horoscopes, where a computer wouldn't be able to predict a person's "sign" from e.g. tweet data any more often than chance, generations really do work as a predictor for some behaviors (or vice-versa.) Think of it this way: if 10% of every other generation does X, but 40% of a particular generation does X, then that generation really should be known for doing X, even though the majority of members of that gene…

Post by kgwxd » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 2:48 PM UTC

caseysoftware wrote: post #87

Klinky wrote: post #74

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No one can really even define what a Millennial is, or who falls in to Generation Y/Z. Even "who is a Boomer?", and the tropes of what a Boomer is, fail when looking at my anecdotal data. Also often activist children are heavily influenced by their activist parents. Generational classification and "analysis" is almost as bad as stereotypes.

Think of mixing colors. If you mix 50/50 red & blue, obviously that's purple. When it's 80/20 red & blue, that looks more red than blue but looks purple but not the same as above. When it's 20/80 red & blue, that looks more blue than red but looks purple but not the same as above. It's a classification using a gradient, not an integer so yes, the boundaries are hard to tell but are still there.

Post by throwaway744678 » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 3:03 PM UTC

kgwxd wrote: post #103

caseysoftware wrote: post #87

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Think of mixing colors. If you mix 50/50 red & blue, obviously that's purple. When it's 80/20 red & blue, that looks more red than blue but looks purple but not the same as above. When it's 20/80 red & blue, that looks more blue than red but looks purple but not the same as above. It's a classification using a gradient, not an integer so yes, the boundaries are hard to tell but are still there.

Wavelength values are linear. The labels cause all the arguments.

Post by Wowfunhappy » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 3:12 PM UTC

tootie wrote: post #93

outime wrote: post #6

This looks like a smart kid from the description given. It's possible that he spent a good time reading recent literature about the drawbacks and decided not to join the masses. Or he just thought twice before following everyone. Either way it's always refreshing to find very young people doing different stuff by themselves as it's specially tough not to follow the trends during that age. I also noticed that there's…

My 11-year old also never looks at her phone. We actually keep having to remind her to do so because we are texting her with reminders all the time. She seems to have almost zero interest in texting with her friends and will only occasionally play games or read books on the Kindle app. It's 100% just her personality though. Nothing that she learned to do. I also track her location with it and she likes us knowing whe…

Post by rahoulb » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 3:33 PM UTC

leetcrew wrote: post #81

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My wife (who is a primary school teacher) was saying that a kid in her school was taking photos with her watch. She didn't even know watches could do that and it means they are going to have to rewrite school policies (currently phones are banned in school because of safeguarding/photos without consent)

do they allow laptops and tablets in school? seems like a "no camera" policy would require the school to provide any electronic devices itself. or I guess they could just not have computers at all; it worked back in the day.