Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence.

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https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epidemic

A big story last week was the partial release of the CDC’s bi-annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which showed that most teen girls (57%) now say that they experience persistent sadness or hopelessness (up from 36% in 2011), and 30% of teen girls now say that they have seriously considered suicide

Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence.

Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational

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