Delphi Clears Teen‑Tech Disagreement

Updated: 2026.09.14 2D ago 2 sources
A large, transparent Delphi process can convert a polarized debate over adolescent smartphone and social‑media harms into fine‑grained areas of agreement and persistent disagreement, backed by citations and structured statements. By documenting rounds of revision and supplying supplemental evidence, such a process makes expert judgment usable for policy and research prioritization. — If adopted more often, large Delphi exercises could shorten public confusion, focus funding and regulation on contested causal claims, and raise the evidentiary bar for alarmist or dismissive narratives.

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Kids These Days, Part II
Paul Bloom 2026.09.14 70% relevant
Bloom cites the limits of single studies and the complexity of causes and calls for disciplined, consensus‑oriented evaluation of competing hypotheses (timing, subgroup effects, cross‑national differences), which connects to the idea of using structured expert methods (e.g., Delphi) and preregistered syntheses to resolve teen‑tech disputes.
Behind the Scenes of the Consensus Statement on Potential Negative Impacts of Smartphone and Social Media Use
2026.05.04 100% relevant
The article describes a Delphi with over 120 experts, 26 evaluated claims, ~1,400 references and 170+ pages of supplemental discussion that produced consensus statements and concrete recommendations.
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