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"The startling results of this study suggest that when left unchecked texting and other widely popular methods of staying connected can have dangerous health effects on teenagers"

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"Hyper-texting was reported by nearly 20 percent of the Midwestern teens surveyed, according to the study. According to the study, teens who are hyper-texters are: -- two times more likely to have tried alcohol -- nearly three-and-a-half times more likely to have had sex -- 40 percent more likely to have tried cigarettes -- 41 percent more likely to have used illicit drugs -- 43 percent more likely to be binge drinkers -- 55 percent more likely to have been in a physical fight -- 90 percent more likely to report four or more sexual partners Hyper-networking was less pervasive, at 11.5 percent, but still associated with a similar list of maladies, the study found. According to the research, these teens are: -- 60 percent more likely to report four or more sexual partners -- 62 percent more likely to have tried cigarettes -- 69 percent more likely to be binge drinkers -- 69 percent more likely to have had sex -- 79 percent more likely to have tried alcohol -- 84 percent more likely to have used illicit drugs -- 94 percent more likely to have been in a physical fight "

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/10/hyper.texting.teens/index.html?hpt=C2

How does shit like this actually make headlines on CNN.
Whatever researcher packaged these findings should be discredited and laughed out of their institution. Only a stupid journalist and sub-par research team could actually imply causation between texting/networking and the negative behaviors that they highlight.

Could it actually be that the students who have plenty of free time to text and facebook all afternoon; are also the teens with nothing better to do than screw, drink, and smoke!?!?!

Whereas those involved with after-schools jobs, sports, and studying are not playing on facebook all day or sexting up their partner!! SOMEONE HAND ME A RESEARCH GRANT AND PUT ME ON CNN.

11/10/2010 9:10:53 AM

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"Could it actually be that the students who have plenty of free time to text and facebook all afternoon; are also the teens with nothing better to do than screw, drink, and smoke!?!?!"

The media doesn't understand the difference between causation and correlation.

11/10/2010 9:17:23 AM

50 percent more likely to have tried souping
65 percent more likely to have tried trampolining
37 percent more likely to have tried skyping

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"They call it "souping" -- teenagers are drinking expired soup cans to get high! Every teenager is doing it, and it WILL kill them!"

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"They call it "trampolining"! A teen boy sits on the roof of a one-story house, receiving oral sex from a girl jumping up and down on a large backyard trampoline! Sources say that if a girl "trampolines" ten boys, she receives a bracelet... and that's what silly bands are."

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"They call it "Skyping". Two teens jumping out of airplane, attached by their genitals!"

[Edited on November 10, 2010 at 9:24 AM. Reason : ]

11/10/2010 9:20:48 AM

That'd be pretty funny if you actually could get high from eating expired soup.

11/10/2010 9:28:31 AM

Guessed they missed the memo about correlation not implying causation.

11/10/2010 9:56:12 AM

They don't teach that in journalism school, evidently.

11/10/2010 9:57:08 AM

11/10/2010 10:02:24 AM

causation != correlation

11/10/2010 10:06:11 AM

the kids with a social life do generally smoke drink and f*** more, amazing they had to do research to figure that out

11/10/2010 10:08:09 AM

I, for one, am on board with giving HUR a research grant.

11/10/2010 10:50:55 AM

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"The media doesn't understand the difference between causation and correlation."

11/10/2010 11:26:52 AM

I remember there was an equally stupid article on CNN a couple months back on how Teen Sex May not hurt grades if done in a monogamous relationship. Blasphemy

[Edited on November 10, 2010 at 11:54 AM. Reason : a]

11/10/2010 11:53:31 AM

I'm sure this kind of hysteria occured when TV became mainstream

in 30 years those teens who are texting today will be researchers coming up with studies about some other new thing that's supposedly destroying society/the youth

11/10/2010 12:20:28 PM

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"Only a stupid journalist and sub-par research team could actually imply causation between texting/networking and the negative behaviors that they highlight."

And yet, you clicked on the article because of the headline, read the article and looked at their ads. Mission accomplished. That journalist probably got a raise.

11/10/2010 12:47:42 PM

^ what does that have to do with the content?

11/10/2010 4:27:02 PM

80 percent less likely to have bitched about parking situations



HUR never got any text love

11/10/2010 4:44:03 PM

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"-- six times more likely to have tried "Jenkem" -- three times more likely to have produced "Jenkem" -- nearly 4-and-a-half times more likely to have been the victim of sodomy or rape"

Jesus Christ... I think kids have been fibbing when they take the survey...

11/10/2010 4:46:04 PM

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"^ what does that have to do with the content?"

Because HUR is bitching about the article, not the study per se. The author's job is to produce content people want to read and ultimately to make CNN money. So of course he writes a ridiculous headline that implies causation, he mis-applies quotes from the researchers to further his case, when the study, as far as I can tell doesn't say that at all.

Of course the media understands the difference between causation and correlation. Correlation doesn't sell ad space, though.

[Edited on November 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM. Reason : s]

11/10/2010 5:06:01 PM

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"90 percent more likely to report four or more sexual partners"

bitches love smileys

11/10/2010 7:13:36 PM

11/10/2010 10:21:42 PM

^ there is actually a website...I can't remember if it's NOAA or DoD or what...but it forecasts pirate activity and threat as a function of weather conditions. it's like a big color-coded map centered on the HOA.

11/10/2010 11:19:35 PM

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"The author's job is to produce content people want to read and ultimately to make CNN money. So of course he writes a ridiculous headline that implies causation, he mis-applies quotes from the researchers to further his case, when the study, as far as I can tell doesn't say that at all. "

Then the story gets reposted on TWW and similar forums. Its a vicious cycle really

11/11/2010 12:21:32 AM