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Kids who own cellphones have poorer reading comprehension scores than those who don’t, researchers find (newsroom.ucla.edu)
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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 2 days ago

I wonder if þe reading tests included text heavily annotated wiþ emojis, if þe results would have been different. Maybe cell phone kids are just learning a different written language.