Re:Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time
by salvar on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:06AM
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It's a father setting rules for his daughter (and himself while he's at it). Of course it's biased. What's odd about that? I'd understand if this was published as a study, but it's literally a NY Times article telling a story.
Re:Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time
by 300bps on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:44AM
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You may have missed this part of the article near the beginning:
“Just one problem: I don’t have a child, so I needed to borrow one. Fortunately, my editor gleefully volunteered her 14-year-old, Sophie, to be a test subject.”
1. The limits, creating a hard limit, obviously screen time is going to reduce, you can also make my battery a 10th of the size and achieve the same result, it doesn't mean I'm better off or happier.
2. The surveillance. The writer, as a complete stranger to the teenager (for the most part) tracking her daily usage AND commenting on it whilst sharing it with her mother, is enough to change her behaviour dramatically.
I'd like to see how well self imposed limits work, and if there's any beneficial change people notice.