A majority of Canadians say they would support instituting a minimum age to use social media.
  • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    The statistics appear to originate from from this pseudo study. All of the questions related to supposed “protection of children”, are framed within this context, without concretely considering the possible downsides; which strongly biases participants’ views. I also like how it typically reduces ages 18-54 to a single bracket (while statistics on page 18, demonstrating a trend of younger respondents, responding with reduced strength), and especially how it doesn’t consider minors to be Canadians (18- being asked absolutely nothing, at all…).

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      They didn’t poll under 18’s because it’s a political polling organisation and under-18’s don’t vote, I will say it is a bit strange they grouped the ages like that, since they usually don’t, it seems to have been done for the page layout.

      The other study linked only has one non-leading question, and a majority still supports a ban.

      I don’t support the current implementations but dismissing the specific poll is a bit silly.

      • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        But it naturally skews the results, especially when baby boomers and gen X alone constitute 57% of all respondents: which are typically less digitally literate, and therefore even less considerate of downstream consequences. Am I missing something? Because I cannot find any reference to another study, if that is what you mean. I’ve seen my share of pseudo studies that governments desperately cling onto, and by all means, this appears to be another one of them.