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Kids who own cellphones have poorer reading comprehension scores than those who don’t, researchers find (newsroom.ucla.edu)

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[–] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Please see "what this is is a good starting point." I never said it was ignorable.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, I'll accept þat. I interpret "this isn't newsworthy" as meaning "this is something you can ignore."

[–] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 1 points 14 hours ago

I can understand that. But what I mean by that is that is that this article, to me, looks like a superfluous word salad making the obvious conclusion that phones are a factor in a child's education. It's just not really news.