This encapsulates what’s been making me anxious lately (from www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...)

From Jeffrey Wooldridge over on Twitter, for those following along. Here’s the link he’s talking about: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Yep. And here is Exhibit A:

“Claim Development Team”

The closest thing from Jay’s paper is 75% of surveyed experts report it’s “probably true” that “social media increases mental disorder exposure in girls” and only about 60% believe the empirical evidence supports this claim. To liken this to the scientific consensus around climate change is absurd

By way of introduction, here’s some work I recently completed w/ @dougaparry.bsky.social that I’m super proud of. Overly-simplistic narratives are attractive & easily understood, but also wrong.

Official version (paywalled): psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Preprint (free): osf.io/preprints/ps...