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Sean McHugh

Video Games Aren't Addictive - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Playing video games is not addictive in any meaningful sense. It is normal behavior that, while perhaps in many cases a waste of time, is not damaging or disruptive of lives in the way drug or alcohol use can be
  • This is true but not illuminating.
  • These areas of the brain — those that produce and respond to the neurotransmitter dopamine — are involved in just about any pleasurable activity: having sex, enjoying a nice conversation, eating good food, reading a book, using methamphetamines.
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  • On its own, the fact that a pleasurable activity involves dopamine release tells us nothing else about it.
  • A large-scale study of internet-based games recently published in the American Journal of Psychiatry bears out our skepticism about this “addiction
  • the diagnosis of addiction doesn’t make much sense to begin with
  • by treating the immoderate playing of video games as an addiction, we are pathologizing relatively normal behavior
  • We don’t deny that new technologies come with some perils. We understand the nostalgia for the halcyon days of, say, the 1950s, when people were not yet bound to their personal technology and were free to enjoy the simpler pleasures of life, like stickball and climbing trees — and getting polio and having to wait in line at the bank to check your account balance.We doubt most people would actually want to return to the good old days. We and our children are “addicted” to new technologies because, for the most part, they improve our lives or are simply pleasurable
  • indulging in panic about technology or nostalgia for a better past that never really existed does us no good
Sean McHugh

Moderate use of screen time can be good for your health, new study finds - Oxford Inter... - 0 views

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Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking - Quillette - 0 views

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shared by Sean McHugh on 22 Feb 21 - No Cached
  • critical thinking is not a skill that can be improved through practice—like a golf swing—nor is it a “general” capability. Instead, it is an abstract description of what humans can do as a result amassing a wealth of underpinning knowledge and skills relevant to the particular context in which thinking is to be deployed
  • young children are capable of thinking critically about subjects they know a great deal about, whereas trained scientists can fail to think critically in areas where they are less knowledgeable
  • not all knowledge is created equal. We need to differentiate between knowledge and information. Much of the information stored on the Internet is pictures of kittens or videos of people singing sea shanties. This can keep increasing exponentially without any need for school children to become acquainted with it
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