Comments on: Study: Cell phone users have troublesome kids

By: Chuck Steel

Chuck Steel — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:39:35 +0000

I agree with Skeptick, parents that are chatting on the phone aren’t paying attention to their kids. I’d bet these are the same kinds of people that answer their cell phone when they are already in a conversation with someone in front of them. That’s poor manners, and their kids are learning that behaviour from them.

Also, at “A Strange Web”, it doesn’t say cell phone owners, it says cell phone _usage_. Both my wife and I own cell phones, but we rarely use them.

By: A Strange Web

A Strange Web — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:44:32 +0000

90% of the population has a cell phone (made that up but I bet it is close). So that means that nearly every kid in the US should have behavioral problems. What – they cry when the researcher takes away their sucker?

I vote this “stupid study of the month”.

By: Skeptick

Skeptick — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:31:49 +0000

“…cell phone use by parents and kids versus reported behavioral problems and found that they are somehow related. Make with it what you will!”

any time spent using a cell phone is less time spent with the kids. duh.