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can we blame smartphones for this?
If you're too fearful to think straight, sure. But I suggest honesty instead of denialism. This seems like mostly a result of the ongoing COVID pandemic
i was looking at
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214226
2015/16 is where it looks to take off
Doesn't look like it to me. Almost all the charts have 2015/16 close to prior years, but in a severe upswing. After 2020 we're far out of the previous range, with still no downswing. But the article did say 2016 too, so it's not you being dumb or anything
really one of those studies if it had been started a few years earlier could have made all the difference
Yeah. I will say, after looking at the data more, the youngest demographic does make it look like smartphones could be a bigger part than I realized. That's very counterintuitive to me, since smartphones are interactive and great at accessing information, while we had TVs forever before that