On: School cell phone bans and student achievement

[achikin]

Because it is proven that phone usage is not an addiction like drugs or alcohol. People put phones away easily if they have a reason to do so.

[rossjudson → achikin]

I have no idea what you are talking about. It walks and quacks exactly like drugs and alcohol.

Thousands of deaths every year are caused by drivers on cell phones. You'd think they'd have a reason to put them away.

[achikin → rossjudson]

There are a lot of reasons for distraction while driving, but we don’t call all of them addiction on that premise. If a driver was not looking at his phone - maybe he’d be looking at something else. The phone is not the reason - it’s just a very suitable object.

[emil-lp → achikin]

Citation needed

[achikin → emil-lp]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6174603/

The main idea here is that overuse not equals addiction.

[justinclift → achikin]

The first part of the Results section says:

    [...] the majority of research in the field declares that smartphones are addictive

Though that section continues on to disagree with that majority, "the majority" declaring smartphones are addictive is certainly supportive of them being so.