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Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Short term and long term impacts are both worthy of study, surely.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Sure, but short term impacts are generally unreliable, since there are a lot of cases of coincidence, like a good policy having no immediate impact or a bad policy having the desired impact. Longer term studies account for that randomness.