“Hi Tyler,

i have big news about the debate over social media harming teens.
So much of it hangs on the claim that the evidence is just correlational, not causal.

Zach Rausch and I show that this is not true; the experiments DO show causation, very clearly and consistently.

Here are my 2 tweets about the post:

https://x.com/JonHaidt/status/1829163166066205168

https://x.com/JonHaidt/status/1829165292460859869

A lot of people heard our discussion, and enjoyed how spirited and yet civil it was.

Might you include the link to this post in your daily email:

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-case-for-causality-part-1

We have 3 more coming. We think we can prove causality using just the existing experiments.

thanks for considering it.
jon”

TC again: I received this email this morning, and told Jon I would post it on MR without response from me, so here it is.

Keep reading this article on Marginal Revolution.

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