[ExI] Bodies

[Damien Broderick]

On 3/9/2010 3:17 PM, Keith Henson quoted:

>> >  Research published last month in the UK showed evidence of a link
>> >  between excessive internet use and depression. Leeds University
>> >  researchers, writing in the Psychopathology journal, said a small
>> >  proportion of internet users were classed as internet addicts and that
>> >  people in this group were more likely to be depressed than non-addicted
>> >  users.

> Cause and effect could run either direction.

Of course. It always astonishes me when people ignore this. I *hope* 
it's just journalists making their typical brainless summaries rather 
than the researchers. Or it might be that  in this case the researchers 
are doing longitudinal studies from a standardized baseline, but that 
seems unlikely.

Damien Broderick