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Girls who spend long hours on the internet are at increased risk of depression, study finds (www.psypost.org)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazing how Lemmy users are just at bad as Redditors when it comes to jumping to conclusions from the header, rather than actually giving a look into the article.

About half of the participants were girls (...) The results showed that girls reported substantially higher depression scores than boys at all ages. They also reported more hours of internet use per week than boys at age 15. Average Internet use times of girls and boys were similar at 13 and 17 years of age.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it sounds like this is based on user reported data. Aren't boys much less likely to report depression symptoms regardless of whether they exist?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

That's a possibility they hint at at the end of the article.