[ars]

This is a bad study. What it actually measured was that heavier social media use is not correlated with mental health.

It DOES NOT say that social media use is, or isn't, correlated with mental health because it did not track teens who did not have access to social media.

Australia will be an excellent natural experiment/study on this: We'll see if things change after their recent law, you can compare the same kid before and after, and you can compare Australian kids to other kids.

[protocolture]

How are you going to determine whether the Australian kid actually left social media, or just signed up with his dogs face to bypass age verification?

[ars]

Ask them. Same way they asked the teens in this study.

[Dilettante_]

"We found no difference in vital functions between someone who had a 100 pound versus a 200 pound weight dropped on their heads. We conclude that heavy blunt impact is not linked to death!"

[ars]

Yup, that's pretty much it - once they are dead from 100 pounds, going to 200 changes nothing.