JFL Study on fecundity links decline to the smartphone

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https://archive.is/0hFsT

In previous decades, the world’s fertility rate went down because couples had fewer children. Now the main reason is that there are fewer couples.

Nathan Hudson and Hernan Moscoso-Boedo of the University of Cincinnati published a paper last month looking at birth rates through the lens of the rollout of 4G mobile networks in the US and UK.
The number of births fell first and fastest in the areas that received high-speed mobile connectivity earliest. The authors argue that smartphones have transformed how young people spend time with one another, sharply reducing in-person socialising and leading to the collapse in their fertility.

All of these inflection points coincided with the mass adoption of smartphones in local markets — as measured by Google searches for mobile apps.

No joke!
The problem is not the smartphone itself but rather the one click to fuck chad apps such as Tinder that are installed on it.
But not a single word on that.

 

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The problem is mainstream social media and dating apps.

 

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Dating apps are for Chads and Chadlites to fuck our looksmatches.