Re:What happens when children don’t have the internet for a ...
by AstralStorm on Friday September 16, 2016 @03:41AM
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A big group of teens, maybe. Separate teenagers are all fine.
Or did they or society degenerate from medieval times that much?
> A supposed child psychologist set them alone in a city by themselves with noone to talk to, no one who cares.
> The point is even if you believe the study to be true, it was unethical. Kids were unsupervised and let loose.
I lived in Moscow, Russia from birth to right before I turned ten. Towards the end, when school let out, I'd get on a bus or subway, and I'd go home to our apartment. Unsupervised, alone, "loose". Sometimes end up playing with friends living in my apartment complex, sometimes I'd just spend time by myself in the apartment. And I was not an outlier in this; this was common among my friends. There wasn't a school bus that would shuttle us to our front door, nor did most people's parents pick them up in 4th grade.
I was nine. The supposed kids being experimented on in this article were teenagers, between 12 and 18.
The idea that allowing teenagers to be unsupervised in a city is dangerous or unethical is ludicrous.