The NPR article contains a link to the actual research letter on JAMA for those smart enough to parse how confident we can be that this is causation and that it's social media consumption itself and not just getting distracted in class by social media.
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>Overall, the differences in mean scores were small relative to the NIH Toolbox standard deviation of 15
From the study’s conclusion. Maybe I don’t get how the scores on this NIH cognitive battery work, but if the standard deviation is 15, and the social media power users were only 1~4 points worse than the non-users… how is this significant?