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NEW in SparkToro: https://sparktoro.com/blog/new-custom-search-custom-audiences-offer-incredible-new-ways-to-use-sparktoro/
We've just launched Custom Audiences (lets you email us a list of social URLs or emails to analyze) and Custom Search (lets you apply multiple parameters to search for exactly the audience you want). Both are pretty cool; details in the post 🤩
Fascinating. Disturbing. And quite compelling, as arguments about social science go.
Via Prof. Jon Haidt: Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls.
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epidemic
NYU Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes a definitive case that social media is a major cause of mental illness in teen girls. Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational.
61 companies in the UK trialed a 4-day work week for the last 8 months. Results:
- 20% reduction in hours worked, no reduction in staff pay
- Significantly decreased rates of stress and illness among the 2,900 participating employees
- Decrease in anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and burnout
- 57% decrease in turnover (staff quitting their jobs)
- Revenue increased 35% vs. prior YoY
According to 3M research, visual aids improve learning by 400% and humans process visual media 60,000 times faster than text. Meanwhile, Time’s Top 100 photos focus on the mighty power of imagery to make an emotional connection. But we’re at a funny moment in time with image content, because we…
Rand Fishkin
