The nonsense you read in the news- @SMH
http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/gmiller/mobile%20phone%20heritability%20pro...
The quote above is a selective quote from the research paper that I also link to above. It's a more involved study than a single quote or headline can do it justice.
The rest of the paper provides much more detail, qualification and notes to interpretation as well as the methods, analyses and design of the study. And numbers. And discussion.
Anyway, I provide it to compare to the next quote from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) article, which - unsurprisingly - does not provide a link to the research study it is reporting upon.
This quote will mean I will be listening to people over the next couple of days telling me how using twitter is proof positive that a person is stupid. Sigh...
"The study also suggested smart people use their phones less" - headline, SMH.
Now keep in mind that the study asked five questions of respondents to indicate the amount of voice and SMS/text messaging usage. Not web usage, not music listening, not picture taking, not facebooking, tweeting or game playing. Etc...
Specifically, question five was:
"(5) On average how many times per day do you use a mobile phone for SMS/text messaging?"
Which, no doubt, is why the SMH crafted their article's headline to refer to tweets and not SMSs:
"Born to talk and tweet: why some children are always on the phone"
http://m.smh.com.au/technology/born-to-talk-and-tweet-why-some-children-are-a...
