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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Problem with this article is that it doesn't lists causes only relationships.  I am skeptical of the findings.[/quote]

That is precisely what makes the article worthwhile.  Applying causality to statistics always introduces bias.

What would be nice to see is the sample size, sample population, etc.  That could allow us to identify potential bias in the sampling.  Otherwise, the numbers have to be read as is.
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You saw that this was a meta-analysis, right?

Articles like this are fine and probably good for discussion purposes, but it does bother me when non-scientists see the word "study" and automatically ascribe meaning to the effort.  From what I can tell, these findings are based on kids who grew up in the 80s, so the lede should really be that parental involvement in the 80s was overrated.  It's hard to take those same conclusions and apply them to kids who were born post-Internet, let alone in the last 5-7 years. [/quote]

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