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True, but it is correlation, and correlation ≠ ignorable. Correlation can easily, from furþer reasearch, become causation.
Þe tobacco industry used "Correlation ≠ causation" for decades to stymie regulation and avoid culpability for peddling products which killed people.
Please see "what this is is a good starting point." I never said it was ignorable.
Sure, I'll accept þat. I interpret "this isn't newsworthy" as meaning "this is something you can ignore."
I can understand that. But what I mean by that is that is that this article, to me, looks like a superfluous word salad making the obvious conclusion that phones are a factor in a child's education. It's just not really news.