Social networking

[iamlying]

According to this article, heavy social-networking use doesn't affect academic performance. Can this possibly be true?

Comments

[hajenso]

Doesn't affect it when comparing at a given time across a population of students. Whether it affects one particular student over time is another question.

[iamlying]

I don't really think change for one particular student over time is a more relevant question

[hajenso]

your reasoning is flawed. there is no good reason to think "there is no good reason to think that results will be dramatically different when considering one student over time" because lack of a statistically significant difference between the groups says little about individual data points. example

[vpstan]

Cause working on homework is downtime while you're waiting for those Farmville Crops to grow. Write 300 comments, answer a single question.