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YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science

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@Nvermind@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent

No. The study found a correlation between people who regularly consume short-form content and those who scored low on tests measuring impulse control and attention span. If you have less self control, you’re more likely to consume more short-form video content (duh). But correlation is not causation and the study is not proving that more short term video content is causing less self control. It probably is, but that’s not the finding of the study as the title and some of the quotes imply.

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@webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on sopuli.xyz Open parent

Neither does impulse control and attention span imply anything about intelligence. Framing it like this is kinda offensive to the many smart people who have a flavour of adhd. Previous Science regarding gaming habits of young kids concluded that they had improved problem solving skills, cognitive skills and also lower attention span.

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CannonFodder in !technology

@CannonFodder@lemmy.world · Mar 02

When we’re talking science, if you have a certain flavour of adhd which makes you less intelligent, it still makes you less intelligent. Nothing to be ashamed of, and of course the ways they define and test for intelligence are often questionable. But worrying about offending people or making test score equitable goes against the principles of objective science.

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