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There is the CS's famed eletism and gate keeping. Just because its not Harvard or Stanford its not relevant? I am a CS grad myself but there is so much toxicity in the community when looking at places like HN. And I am not saying anything about your point. Maybe you are right, I just hate that you start off with 'b-school bad' argument.

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UPenn is a well regarded school. Its business school is generally regarded to be the best of the lot. Wharton professors are generally not on the receiving side of elitism. This research is simply very low quality. It maybe gratifies a certain sensibility. We all know that using our phones too much can be a problem and this research makes for a pithy form of name calling. But beyond a quick insult against a perceived threat the core thesis just makes no sense in light of the past 50 years of research on psychology and media.

Then make a point that the research sucks. Don't entrench a system of "elite" universities, especially when it's the inverse here.

I think you mistook "b-school" to mean "second tier". The GP meant "business school".

I think what they actually said was "Just because it's business school it's not relevant"

My initial vitriol against academics was perhaps unnecessary. The research is clearly uninterested in the large body of serious research around this subject. It is perhaps unfair to say that low quality research is inherent to business school academics in general.

Well, somebody can just falsify that claim by posting some well known excellent scientific research written by business school academics.

Which is why we don't judge research based on single studies but rather of a population of them.

What does the population average of business school research look like?

Which is why we don't judge a race based on individuals but rather of a population of them.

What does the population average of <insert race here> look like ?

Race is not a empirically valid construct

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