Researchers “Addicted” to Bogus Internet Studies
April 24th, 2010 admin
The University of Maryland released a study of college students and the Internet yesterday that garnered some headlines, including one from Reuters that talked about how these poor students were “suffering from Internet addiction.” According to the research quoted by the newswire, they showed “symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions” when they were forced to give up access to the web and mobile communications such as text messaging. And what were those symptoms? If you read a news release the university issued about the study, one of the …
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