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neku wrote

tentatively, i agree with their conclusions, but the paragraph about "watchwords" reducing the confidence of children and their interest in play is totally unfounded based on the article that they cite, which is just a proposed experimental protocol! based on that and the article's tone in general, i do get the impression that the authors aren't quite impartially weighing up the risks and benefits of risky/unstructured play in the way that i would hope to see in an academic article

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hollyhoppet OP wrote

yeah i agree. not perfect but i still found it to be an interesting read and do worry that kids are not being given adequate opportunities for explorative play.

...especially when i hear about stuff like schools cutting recess time in order to push for better test scores

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anethum wrote

yeah there are some citation problems in this article. the study that they cited for "Studies have also associated rough-and-tumble play with better problem-solving scores in boys" is a... meta-analysis on studies about time spent outdoors and its correlation with myopia. (which is incidentally a bit amusing to me because well we already know that)

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neku wrote

yeah i'm not sure if the citations are listed incorrectly or if theyre backing up their assertions using only marginally related articles which do not actually explicitly reinforce their point 🤷

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anethum wrote

also dislike how "obesity" is always the first thing on the list of health stuff they want to solve but eh what can you do

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