Flipboard Tech Desk<p>Last year, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" was released. The book about how smartphones and overprotective parenting damage children's mental health has sold over two million copies. Jon Severs writes for the TES about academics' problems with the book: Shaky methodology, misunderstood studies, conclusions that go far beyond the data, and proposed solutions that start with parents, not tech companies. “Why are parents even having to figure threats out?” asks Andrew Przybylski, professor of human behaviour and technology at the University of Oxford. “Parents don’t have to pick between really safe and really dangerous trampolines — we have things in place to make sure it is very difficult to buy even a fairly dangerous trampoline."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/9K.qEV" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/9K.qEV</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/JonathanHaidt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JonathanHaidt</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AnxiousGeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnxiousGeneration</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Parenting</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Children</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>