
Episode 89: What's Wrong with Social Media?
Two Psychologists Four Beers
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Is There a Negative Correlation Between Social Media Use and Well Being?
The orban and prebilski paper documents reasons why there might be some sort of inconsistency about the association between social media use and well being in th literature. One is that, im these sort of like very broad, i would say, particularly questions related to things like well being and stuff like that where you're using existing data sets. There's often a lot of a flexibility in the sort of, like, justifiable analyses that you can do. But then there also the fact that these are often cross sectional data sets that make it difficult to make causal claims. The study has over 60 million defensible specifications, right? And apparently few deactivated for, i think, 30
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