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YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 23 hours ago

Then they were already dumb.

Short attention span correlates with low intelligence but short attention span doesn't cause low intelligence.

I can't remember the whole thing but there is a sort of pseudo research paper that got published exactly to demonstrate the difference between correlation and causation. In the paper they "found" that yellow teeth cause cancer.

Of course smoking causes yellow teeth, and cancer. The yellow teeth are correlated, but do not cause.