Craig Sewall
@cjsewall9
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Current clinical data scientist. Former academic & therapist. My views do not reflect those of my employer.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined June 2016
My article w/ @dougaparry, “Social media & youth mental health: Simple narratives produce biased interpretations,” is now available free online @APA_Journals Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology).🧵 1/10.
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Many academics and pundits contend that social media use is the primary cause of an international youth mental health crisis. However, these claims often rely on correlational evidence, ignoring the...
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RT @Afinetheorem: Forthcoming in QJE from my colleage @caroartc: effect of opioids on N. Am. politics hard to overstate. About 1/4 of all d….
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Anyone aware of resources (blogs, articles, etc) that estimate/simulate power for DiD with staggered adoption estimators (e.g., Callaway and Sant'Anna)?. @pedrohcgs .@jmwooldridge.
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RT @SwipeWright: I believe it's good to follow up when something I posted turns out to be not as it seems. I contacted Greg Miller, the pro….
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RT @SashaGusevPosts: The NIH funded a grant lead by PI Miller to collect data. The grant ended in 2019. In 2024, a different lab used the M….
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RT @PeteEtchells: Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, the new podcast from @ShuhBillSkee and I - first episode is now live. We hope….
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Can’t spell pope without “ope.” This midwestern pontiff gets it.
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Can anyone find a report from a school that went truly phone free (for whole day) and that regretted it or reversed it? . More typical are reports of "miraculous" transformation, school day becomes more fun and engaging:.
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RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW 🧵. A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:. 1) Trump has had the same impact on….
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Ultimately, this is what this whole “debate” comes down to. There’s the science and then there’s narrative/vibes. The narrative camp rejects the science if it goes against their vibes and vice versa.
Smart phones are one issue where I genuinely don’t care what the studies do or don’t say. Call me anti-intellectual all you want, but I refuse to believe we need studies to tell us The Phones are rotting everyone’s brains. We all know they are and they have no place in schools.
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Sam Rockwell: (finishes lengthy monologue). Waiter: So…yes to another chamomile tea?. #WhiteLotus.
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If both screen time (incl. social media) and bad stuff (like mental distress) are correlated w/ low-income, it will look like screen time causes the bad stuff. When in reality, it’s actually due to being low-inclme. Kinda like what I talked about here:
2 hours, 27 minutes: The average hours of screen time in a typical day for children 8 and younger in 2024. And egads, look how it breaks down. 😬. Source: @CommonSense Media survey
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RT @dwallacewells: "Although reported suicidal behaviors rose 233% from 2006-2021, the true rise in mental health disorders is less than 30….
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This does sound like a hard problem to solve. Good thing there’s a super-intelligent AGI available to solve it for us.
Every single AI leader knows that AI, if not stopped soon, will eliminate the vast majority of current human jobs. Not a single one of them has any plausible idea how society will function after that. And not one of them seem to care. News flash: the AI companies will never.
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RT @xiaoransunpsu: We're so excited that the first paper from our Adolescent & Family Screenome Study is published! In this paper we used m….
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Whenever I see sudden and significant shifts in trends like this I automatically think “Probably measurement non-invariance.” Am I the only one?.
What happened in the 1980's so that . everyone, everywhere, . of all ages started getting fat?
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RT @DegenRolf: Meta-analysis: "A social media abstinence does not make you feel less bad – it at most makes you feel a little better." "Abs….
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RT @Cavalorn: 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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RT @PeteEtchells: This offer is still on. If you’re interested in the real science of screen time effects, this is the book you want, and f….
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