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Cellphone Addiction May Be Contagious, Study Finds

2 pointsby brequinnover 12 years ago

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lutuspover 12 years ago
The quasi-scientific term "study" is a bit over the top for a data-mining observation that only describes and doesn't make any effort to explain or analyze. In other words, it's a disposable "study" in contemporary human psychology that will be forgotten a week from now.<p>"Look -- look! Joe saw Karen pick up her cell phone, so he picked up his cell phone too! Let's publish! Oh, of course the psychology journals will accept our paper -- they accept everything!"<p>Description alone is not science -- one must try to explain what's been described. Were this not so, astrology, all description and no explanation, would be classed as a science.