Research and regulation should shift from crude time‑on‑device counts to objective, activity‑level measures (which app, what content, interaction patterns) and within‑person designs that capture how the same teen responds over time. That requires partnerships with platforms for logged usage data, standardized content categories, and privacy‑preserving protocols for researchers.
— If adopted, this reframes policy and parental guidance from limiting minutes to targeting harmful contexts, and it changes what evidence counts in debates about youth mental health and platform regulation.
2025.04.02
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The Nature editorial explicitly calls out unreliable self‑reported screen time and the failure to distinguish activities, referencing the Handbook and review syntheses as motivation for better measurement.
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