The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere
It&#x27;s funny. Somehow I don&#x27;t think the standard of evidence[RCTs] we get calls for in nutrition studies(for example), will be applied equally here. It&#x27;s an epistemological double-standard that&#x27;s rarely given serious consideration.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t give correlative studies much thought. It could be just as likely that people who were more anxious or depressed were found to be mobile phone users or any number of other things causing both anxiety and depression and increased mobile phone use. Critique of causal errors should be no different here than any other conclusion made from correlations.