If anything, it appears the bans were associated with slightly worse mental health:
> In the full sample, the estimated postpolicy association was 0.65 (95% CI, 0.01-1.30; P = .05) for depressive symptoms, 0.21 (95% CI, −0.08 to 0.50; P = .16) for anxiety, 0.23 (95% CI, −0.12 to 0.59) for hostility, and −0.52 (95% CI, −1.08 to 0.03; P = .06) for mental well-being.
> Although a small number of estimates were suggestive of worse outcomes before multiple testing correction, none remained statistically significant after prespecified correction. Results were similarly null in gender-stratified analyses.
> bans were associated with slightly worse mental health
I expect if you took away adults phones for a few hours every day their would experience increased anxiety
The Amish aren’t wrong, they just feel left out of all the fuck-shit we’re doing.
That’s the most concise way I can put that.
No, they think that we are all mad to chase technology and to forget about life.
Vouched to say:
Correct.
and the only discontent with that a minority of their people feel is when they look at us.
I lived in a area with a lot of Amish people and got to know them a little bit - it is a fascinating culture with a lot of odd but - from their perspective - understandable decisions. My bet is that if and when the tech world crashes hard the Amish (a splinter group of the Mennonites) will be the last to notice.
> will be the last to notice.
Where traditional Arrernte, Wongi, et al likely won't notice at all.
That's true but they are also geographically isolated whereas Amish/Mennonites are usually found in areas where there is also a lot of technical development.
I appreciate the time you took to consider and answer, I'd put it to you that there's more to it than geographic isolation.
There's nothing preventing Wongi folk from buying a pair of DGX Sparks and having them shipped out to Kalgoolie and they're literally on the same ground as the Australian component of the SKA - some of the more advanced signal processing instrumentation and racked supercomputers on the planet.
I hear talk of making AI centres isolated in space, etc.