2025 – The average American spends approximately 7 hours and 4 minutes per day looking at screens.
Gen Z stands out, averaging around 9 hours per day on screens. https://www.magnetaba.com/blog/average-screen-time-statistics
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2020 – Study finds that social media usage increases memory failures across all age groups.
The concurrent model revealed that on days when social media use was high, individuals reported more memory failures. The lagged
Read More2025 – Children and adolescents who spend more than 3 hours a day on social media face double the risk of mental health problems including experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety.
“This is concerning as a recent survey showed that teenagers spend an average of 3.5 hours a day on social
Read More2024-2025 – Approximately 40% of students across the nation cannot read at a basic level.
Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a
Read More2020 Study – Upwards of 80 percent to 85 percent of Americans follow politics “casually or not at all.”
“Just 15 percent to 20 percent follow [politics] closely.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/opinion/polarization-politics-americans.html https://www.fox5ny.com/news/study-up-to-80-of-americans-follow-politics-casually-or-not-at-all
Read MoreNovember 2025 – MIT Study Finds Significantly Decreased Brain Engagement On Students Using AI
The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several
Read MoreNovember 2024 – U.S. Eighth-Graders’ Scores Decline on International Assessment of Critical Computer and Information Literacy Skills
WASHINGTON (November 12, 2024) — U.S. eighth-graders scored at the international average for computer and information literacy but below the
Read More2021 Study by King’s College London Details Depth of ScreenRot Among Adults
Key findings: UK adults hugely underestimate how often they check their phones, thinking they check them 25 times a day
Read MoreSeptember 2025 – Average reading scores for high school seniors, released by the Nation’s Report Card, fell to their lowest level since 1992.
Average reading scores for U.S. high school seniors have dropped to their lowest levels since 1992. This 10-point decline from
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