Oh, social media companies have an enormous impact on the world - through decisions made at C-suite and senior management level about what to demand of software engineers and how to deploy that work.
The impact by software engineers perhaps falls more in the "failed to whistle blow" category than the "evil Dr. Strangelove" box .. save for those very few that actually rise to a position of signifigance in strategic decision making.
That aside, the teen girl suicide rate underpinning your reference seems to be about 2x, from 2.8 per 100K (ish) circa 2000 to 5.5 per 100K in 2017
As a research letter from JAMA I take that as fair reporting of some raw CDC data - I don't know how representative that result is in the fullness of reflection, normalisation, and other things that happen with data over time. To be clear I'm not quibblling and I thank you for the link.
Haidt also makes clear that Correlation does not prove causation and argues that No other suspect is equally plausible.
I'm 100% willing to align myself with the "social media as it stands is a scourge on humanity and young minds (for the most part)" camp.
I'm equally onboard with corporations are shit at personal data security and should be held with feet to the fire until they improve.
The impact by software engineers perhaps falls more in the "failed to whistle blow" category than the "evil Dr. Strangelove" box .. save for those very few that actually rise to a position of signifigance in strategic decision making.
That aside, the teen girl suicide rate underpinning your reference seems to be about 2x, from 2.8 per 100K (ish) circa 2000 to 5.5 per 100K in 2017
Jonathan Haidt links to this paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27358...
which doesn't include the figures. The full reproduced JAMA Research Letter from 2019 with figures and all is here: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1001/jama.2019.5054
As a research letter from JAMA I take that as fair reporting of some raw CDC data - I don't know how representative that result is in the fullness of reflection, normalisation, and other things that happen with data over time. To be clear I'm not quibblling and I thank you for the link.
Haidt also makes clear that Correlation does not prove causation and argues that No other suspect is equally plausible.
I'm 100% willing to align myself with the "social media as it stands is a scourge on humanity and young minds (for the most part)" camp.
I'm equally onboard with corporations are shit at personal data security and should be held with feet to the fire until they improve.