The article references a discussion between pop author Jonathan Haidt and expert on youth mental health Dr. Candice Odgers
Haidt admits at the very end, is that Odgers knows the research in this space better than anyone, and she wasn’t going to let Haidt get away with making broad generalizations not supported by the data.
She also suggests that Haidt’s problem is that he has a story and then went back searching for data to support it. Rather than going in and seeing what the data actually says
Haidt jumps in to insist you don’t need a pre-existing hypothesis to find something. This is technically true because of course you can sometimes find something that way. But also, it is kind of a big deal right now, given the replication crisis which started in Haidt’s own field of psychology. The crisis was brought on by researchers hunting through data to try to prove something.
Haidt frequently jumps between arguments that aren’t directly connected. When asked about evidence on mental health, he talks instead about things like sextortion and catfishing.
I’m really hoping that more people recognize that Haidt’s position doesn’t seem to really be supported by the evidence.
Instead, politicians, parents, and school administrators are all acting as though Haidt has it all figured out. Mostly because it absolves them of having to do the hard work of teaching kids how to use these tools appropriately.
The article references a discussion between pop author Jonathan Haidt and expert on youth mental health Dr. Candice Odgers
>making broad generalizations not supported by the data.
There are psychologists who do not do this.
There are not very many psychologists who do not do this.