I just *love* the way reporters report "research" - none of this (no
controls, not random selection) showed up in any stories I saw.
>From Edupage:
NET DEPRESSION STUDY CRITICIZED
Various researchers, including Vanderbilt University's Donna L. Hoffman,
are criticizing the recently released Carnegie Mellon University study
that suggested that the Net may be a lonely place, causing depression in
many people who used it extensively for e-mail, chat, and similar
purposes. Noting that the subjects of the study were not randomly
selected (and not matched with a scientific "control" group of people
who didn't use the Net but were otherwise like the people in the study),
Hoffman says the CMU research is "not ready for prime time. This is not
saying that Internet does not cause depression. Maybe it does -- but
this research does not prove that." She adds that the CMU finding is
hard to believe because it runs "counter to experience, anecdotal
evidence, practice and scholarly research."
(Washington Post 7 Sep 98)
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