World Happiness, Anglo Youth Decline, & Social Media (opens in new tab)

The latest World Happiness Report gives Jonathan Haidt a megaphone to continue his narrative that decreasing wellbeing among young people can be blamed nearly entirely on social media use (Chapter 3). Chapter 4 shows how assessments of the evidence are biased and (US) American Psychologists, APA, are the most biased, but the (US) Surgeon General Social media is harming adolescents at a scale large enough to cause changes at the population level Jonathan Haidt Stern School of Business, New Yor...