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Counter-argument discovery: showing arguments that contest "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, and the popular synthesis on this question has run ahead of its data. ".clear

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    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.

    What makes this case stronger than a typical "X happened, then Y happened" story is that three patterns line up on the same hypothesis, and they don't easily line up on others. The timing: rates of depression, self-harm, and suicide among teens turn upward within a narrow window in the early 2010s, in countries that s…

    Strongest counter: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 he…
    Cited by 3· 1 contestOdgers and her co-authors have spent more than a decade working directly with the kind of datasets and analytic methods this debate hinges…