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Counter-argument discovery: showing arguments that contest "Smartphone-based social media is the principal cause of the rise in adolescent depression, anxiety, and self-harm seen across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and the Nordic countries since roughly 2012. ".clear

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    The empirical association between adolescent social media use and mental health outcomes is small and methodologically fragile; the evidence does not warrant attributing the post-2012 youth mental health decline principally to smartphones,…

    Odgers and her co-authors have spent more than a decade working directly with the kind of datasets and analytic methods this debate hinges on, and they keep arriving at the same conclusion: the associations are real but small, the methods are more fragile than the popular synthesis lets on, and the cross-national timi…

    Strongest counter:Smartphone-based social media is the principal cause of the rise in adolescent depression, anxiety, and self-harm seen across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and the Nordic countries since roughly…
    Cited by 3· 1 contestWhat makes this case stronger than a typical "X happened, then Y happened" story is that three patterns line up on the same hypothesis, and…