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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

This might help, but might also be irrelevant. There are experiments in the UK on total smartphone bans in schools that show improvement in attention and such, but reading is also done on that very smartphones

I would say, the distractions and all the algorithms tuned to split your attention are more of a problem than the phones, and especially not the tests