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Second, and most germane to Odgers' review: She and the other skeptics are free to critique the hundreds of studies Zach and I cite in our essays at After Babel and in chapters 1, 5, 6, and 7 of The Anxious Generation. They can certainly say that they are not persuaded and that they will not be persuaded until the perfect experiment is done. But they cannot say that I am drawing only on correlational studies, or that I have "no evidence" of causation, or that I do not understand the difference between correlation and causation. I laid out the evidence for causality (not just correlation) between social media use and mental health outcomes for girls and walked the reader through the Google Doc and multiple kinds of evidence in this post in early 2023: Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here's the Evidence.

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Second, and most germane to Odgers' review: She and the other skeptics are free to critique the hundreds of studies Zach and I cite in our essays at After Babel and in chapters 1, 5, 6, and 7 of The Anxious Generation. They can certainly say that they are not persuaded and that they will not be persuaded until the perfect experiment is done. But they cannot say that I am drawing only on correlational studies, or that I have "no evidence" of causation, or that I do not understand the difference between correlation and causation. I laid out the evidence for causality (not just correlation) between social media use and mental health outcomes for girls and walked the reader through the Google Doc and multiple kinds of evidence in this post in early 2023: Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here's the Evidence.
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Just Another Amy (justanotheramy@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 17:22:44 JST Just Another Amy
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This post is already more than long enough, and I’m not reading two more. He can repeat the mistake 10 or hundreds of times — doing it hundreds of times arguably makes it worse. Accumulating flawed studies doesn’t prove causation; it only reinforces the critique that he conflates correlation with causation, ignoring systemic factors and underlying variables.

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