Kids who own phones have poorer reading comprehension scores VS those who don't

Markoff

Obviously reading improves reading and if kid has phone it doesn't read (books), but plays games or watch videos. Though study found one benefit - if kid is non-native speaker they can improve their English by using the phone (in English). Link to original study https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/16/8/1263

potatototoo99

Controlled for confounding variables right? Right??

mahmoudilyan

Unfortuantely, this is true

Bridged7756

I don't partake in the whole "dopamine addiction" nonsense, but you can literally feel your cognitive performance getting worse the more you use your phone. Not only infinite feeds, also shopping at the tip of your fingers, at all times, the possibility of immediately searching, finding something. Even your interests completely change; suddenly reading is boring and something you have no energy for. Movies and TV Shows are boring. Videogames are not rewarding. Like a switch, I suddenly start reading again, enjoying these things the moment I block all such immediate-hit distractions from my phone. I think phones are the real issue. Even if you have unlimited access to whatever short form apps, eshopping, information on a computer, it's the ease of being able to immediately get a hit as you lie comfortably in your couch, or while you wait for something, that's the issue. No time to simmer in your thoughts, or to be able to put in some effort to get a reward. We are lazy by nature, smartphones exploit that to make profits, and as a consequence to that, we rewire our brains to prefer the seamlessly of just scrolling down ad infinitum.