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“What the newspaper coverage doesn’t tell you is what Mind Hacks clearly does: that this research is, as Vaughan puts it, ‘appalling’. Sigman, it seems, has strung together a couple of correlations then drawn an extremely speculative conclusion from them. The correlation between internet use and loneliness isn’t even accurate - there’s plenty of correlational evidence that shows the exact opposite: that internet use actually decreases loneliness.”

Bad science and sloppy journalists are indeed a bad combination! One of the journalists over here even wrote an article quoting this “research” with the title “Facebook causes cancer” *groans*