"The effects of mobile phone use on academic performance: A meta-analysis" [0]
"Results indicate the summary effect of mobile phone use on student outcomes is r = −0.16 with 95% CI of −0.20 to −0.13."
[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03601...
Refers to a more recent meta analysis from 2023 of 12000 kids and basically found no substantial negative effects from screen time
Learning, attentional control and action video games https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3461277/
Not nerd sniped at all.
> in other words, an end in and of itself — we have recently considered the possibility that enhanced attention is instead a means to an end, with that end being better probabilistic inference [54]
Improved probabilistic inference as a general learning mechanism with action video games [54] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20833324/