Dear students, now we are going to study the second type of research on the basis of purpose research and this type of research is descriptive research. Descriptive research is conducted to present a picture of a specific details of a situation, social setting or a relationship. We conduct descriptive research in order to understand the relationship between the two variables and in a specific situation and in a particular social setting. And descriptive research starts with a well-defined issue or a question. Whenever we conduct descriptive research, we have a research question in hand, unlike explorative research in which we start the research with an idea with an emerging issue and we do not know about the research questions but in descriptive research, we start descriptive research with the well-defined research questions and we know what are the variables of the study and we more focus on how and who then why. In descriptive research, we try to answer particular research questions and if we talk about the characteristics of the descriptive research, in descriptive research, we provide a detailed, highly accurate picture. At this level, we have variables of the study and we measure them properly and we tell them the relationship between them on the basis of them. For instance, if we are doing a study in which we are looking at the impact of fear of COVID-19 on mental health, then when we conduct descriptive research, we will know how to measure fear of COVID-19 and how to measure mental health and how to measure the nature of relationship between the two. And in descriptive research, we locate new data that contradict past data. The basic purpose of descriptive research is advancement and progress of the theory. In descriptive research, we properly test theoretical assumptions whether these theoretical assumptions are correct or not. For example, a theoretical assumption is that because of fear of COVID-19, people's mental health has been negatively affected. The fear of COVID-19 in people's mental health has been negatively affected. So, whether these theoretical assumptions are correct, if they are correct, then what social settings are correct? Whether they are correct for Europe, whether they are correct for Asian societies, whether they are correct for those societies where there is a lockdown and whether they are correct for those societies where there is no lockdown. So, we study all these situations in descriptive research. And in descriptive research, we create a set of category and classify types. In descriptive research, we try to measure the variables and classify them based on which contributing variables are in any issue and which non-contributing variables are in any issue. For example, I was talking about the corona, in corona, people's mental health had a direct relationship with fear of COVID-19. So, the theory here says that people's mental health is actually linked with the positive mental health, the positive emotions, if people's self-belief was better, if people's self-confidence was better, if they were spiritually strong, then their mental health was less affected. So, this was an addition to descriptive research that whenever we have to study the mental health of the people in a pandemic, we must see the spiritual level of the people as well. And in descriptive research, we clarify our sequence or steps or stages. So, we see that in descriptive research, what are the variables that are caused, what are the variables that are moderated, and what are the variables that are mediated. For example, when we talk about COVID-19's mental health, we see that the issue of mental health was probably more in that population, which was related to middle class or middle class. And the issue of mental health was not related to your elite class, because if their social interaction physically ended with people, then they engaged themselves in different social settings. For example, some people went to warm houses, some people virtually interacted with others, they engaged themselves in their homes, so these findings came to be known only on the basis of descriptive research. And in descriptive research, we document our causal process or mechanism. And the descriptive research clearly tells you which variable is cause and which variable is outcome. And in descriptive research, we report on the background and context of a situation as well. As I just told you, whenever we study the mental health of the people with reference to the pandemic, we have to study the social setup as well, that the people we study, what is their economic position? Mental health is also linked with the economic position. So when we add this, we can do such things in descriptive research.


I'm Zeke and welcome to the dream green show. Now we started off this YouTube channel by dividend investing. Now dividends are companies that you invest into that pays back their investors in a form of dividends, either monthly, quarterly, bi-annually, or yearly, just from holding shares of their company. They're paying back their investors in the form of dividends as a way to say thank you. It is the most passive form of income that I have because you literally just invest into good quality stocks and then you get paid every single month or every single quarter by doing absolutely nothing.  So we've been doing a really good job at dividend investing. Now there's one drawback to dividend investing. Now really good growth companies, for example, like Apple, these companies have been growing at a fast rate over the last five years, but their dividend payments are fairly low. Some of them are actually under a full percent, just maybe a half percent. So you're not getting paid out much dividends, but you are getting more value in that company from the stocks growing over time, but you're not getting that passive income in the form of dividends. And the other dividends are dividend companies that have a high dividend yield. I'm talking about six, seven percent and they pay out every single month, but those companies are not growth stocks. They you'll be lucky if they trade sideways or gain a percent every quarter or so. But for the most part, these companies aren't growth stock in their stock is not going to double over the next five years or so. But you are getting in a big lump sum of dividends from these high dividend companies, their stock is just not going to grow. Now what if I tell you in this video, we found the way to work around the drawbacks of both of these situation guys from the low dividends from big growth stocks to the high dividend payments, but it's trade sideways. And we're going to do that in the form of swing trading. Swing trading is a style of trading that attempts to capture short to medium turn games and they stock over a period of a few days to several weeks. Swing traders primarily use technical analysis to look for good trading opportunities. So basically what that says is that we're going to look for a technical analysis, the RSI, which is tell us that a stock is oversold. I mean, it's been pulling back for quite some time now and when the stock is pulling back, we're going to buy the dip. That is what it's called. We're going to buy the dip of that good quality stock and since the quality stock is probably going to have a low dividend, but we're going to ride that wave right on back up over the next month, two, three months or so. And we're going to get that nice gains from a growth company. And while we're getting those nice gains, we're going to also get dividend payments from that growth company. So we're going to exponentiate our gains from holding these low dividend paying stocks by swing trading these great companies that had a pull back over the last two or three months or so. So I'm going to show you guys exactly how to find these stocks is really, really simple. I'm going to show you how to find it in this video. But before we dive into that, this video is brought to you by Weeble sign up. Now I'm by clicking the link down in the description deposit $100. And now you can receive up to $2,400 in stocks with those two free stocks. You could keep them inside the platform and decide to use it, or you can sell those two free stocks and withdraw all of your money. It's literally free money guys. Do not miss out on that opportunity. Also, there's a link in the description to Moomoo right now. If you sign up deposit $100, you'll receive a free stock of Lucid. Just from signing up, I think that it's like a $25 stock. Get the free money guys. Both of those links are down in the description, but enough talking. Let's go ahead and dive straight into this video. Welcome back Germans. Here we are inside of Weeble. Now to get to the screen, we want to click the watch list at the bottom left right there at the heart. And then just hit the search button at the top. We're going to hit search. And then right there it says crypto screeners top ganas calendar. We're going to click screeners. Then we're going to screen the entire US stock market for the certain parameters that we're going to set in place. And we're going to create a new screener. We're going to search the United States and we're going to hit market cap. And we're going to look for companies over $1 billion. So that eliminates all of the penny stock companies, all of the $500 million market cap stock companies, companies that aren't going to be as big. We're not looking for penny stocks. We're looking for good, stable, big, large companies. So we're going to go from $1 billion all the way up to $2,477 billion. Hit done. Now we're going to scroll down to dividends. We're looking for anything over a 0.5 dividend. Like I said, good quality stocks is going to have dividends around 0.5% all the way up to, let's say, 11% hit done. And let's scroll down to one. Now this is the technical indicator that I was talking about at the beginning of this video to have the Golden Cross, the KDJ oversold, the RS16 oversold. So we're looking for the RSI 16 oversold. We're going to click that right there. So before we click that, there's 1,123 companies. But once we hit the RSI oversold, that now it's only shown as 32 companies that had a major pullback over the next, over the last month or two or so. Okay, guys, and then we're going to go down and then we're going to click you results. Okay, right now it's in alphabetical order, but let's organize it by market cap. And there we go at the top. Let me show you guys what I mean by it's oversold or they had a pullback. Pfizer's at the top. They have a dividend yield of 1.56%. Let's click on Pfizer. And there you go, guys, over the last, let's click three months. Over the last three months, it had a major pullback. It was all the way up to it was all the way up to $52.28. And now it's all the way down to 41.49. So that is what I mean by they had a major pullback. Now, if you pull now, if we look at the year chart, it's looking like it's coming to some kind of support. And if we get in at 41.49 and swing traded all the way back up to $50 over the next couple of months or so, we're going to be collecting dividends and also swing trading Pfizer back up to his previous all-time high. You could wait until the pullback a little bit more if you would like to. But I think Pfizer is a decent quality stop to invest into to hold long term. Another one, let's take a look at Kroger's. Everyone should know what Kroger's is. Well, I'm from Texas. So everyone from Texas know what Kroger's is. Once again, you guys can see that big pullback. It was at one point at $47.47 and now it is at $38.59. So that is another major pullback on a good quality company that pays dividends. And if we look at the MACD right here, it's looking like it won a crossover on the MACD fairly soon. So as you could tell, Kroger's had a big drop off after the earnings report a couple of days ago and it started to pull back. So we could be patient on it. Wait for it to hit a bottom, buy Kroger's and then swing-traded weight right on back up to the top of around $47. Now we'll be making percent gains of like 20% by swing-trading these. That's more, way more than then you will be receiving in dividends because Kroger's only have a .84 dividend yield. And let's look at one more. Let's look at, OK, so let's take a look at Domino's Pizza, DPZ. Over the last three months, it did have a pullback. It's down 6% over the last three months. Domino's Pizza is fairly a good stock to get into. You could buy it right now while it's pulling back or you could wait for it to pull back some more. It's at $454 right now. I think it had an all-time high of around, let's see, $541. So you could swing trade that back up a couple of percent if you guys would like to get in on that right now. Or you could just wait, continue, look at your market analysis and decide on when to get in on these stocks. So that is how I find good quality companies that don't have the best dividends, but I could swing trade them back up to the top, cheat code the system and get those growth from these growth stocks and also get the dividends while I'm swing trading it back up to the top to maximize my returns. And there we go, dreamers. Let me know what you think about the strategy down in the comment section.  Let me know what kind of trader you are in the comment section. Do you just buy dividend stocks and dividend stocks only that have high dividend yields, regardless of the quality of that stock? Just to collect those dividends, let me know how that's working out for you down in the comment section. I'll be sure to reply if you are down there, just killing it inside the stock market. But other than that, guys, don't forget to pick up your two free stocks from Weeble, pick up your one free stock from Moomoo. That's free money, guys. I'm telling you, it's free money. Get it while you can, because it's going to change over time. So make sure that you're picking up your free stocks. But other than that, guys, you made it to the end of this video. Hit that thumbs up button, subscribe to this channel and hit that notification bell that helps me out, but then you can even imagine. But that's all I have to give you guys in this video. I'm Zeke, bring you to Dream Green Show and I'm out. Peace.


Recurrent canker source is the single most common inflammatory and ulcerative condition of the mouth, affecting as many as one in five people. Ouch! Sometimes it can be a sign of celiac disease, a relatively rare autoimmune condition triggered by the wheat protein gluten. But what about those without celiac disease? Well, 37 years ago there was a report of a small group of recurrent canker source patients that got better after removing gluten from their diet, despite the fact that they didn't have any signs of celiac disease. Now without a control group, you don't know if they wouldn't just gotten better on their own, but it was interesting enough to spark further study. Given that small series of patients, they decided to try out a gluten-free diet on 20 folks with recurring canker source, again explicitly excluding those known to have celiac disease. And five out of 20 seem to get better. And critically, then they got worse when they were challenged with gluten. So even though there was no control group in the few that got better, the ulcers came back when gluten was added back to their diet. Now this was not just some random group of canker source sufferers. The reason they had gotten intestinal biopsies to rule out celiac was because they had some other abnormalities. So you can't extrapolate from this study saying one in five sufferers may benefit from cutting out gluten, though at least it appears in some people to help. Though it would have been better if there was some blinded challenge.  So then when the researcher gives you a piece of bread, maybe just the stress that the thought of your ulcers coming back may actually help trigger the ulcers coming back. And that's why ideally you do blinded gluten challenges to see if gluten really is to blame. For example, if you take people who don't have celiac or wheat allergy, but nevertheless claim to be sensitive to gluten, you can test to see if they're fooling themselves by randomly assigning them to take a capsule with gluten inside or just a placebo made out of rice starch. So they're on a gluten-free diet, and then you give them this pill, which in the case of the gluten one is equivalent to like two pieces of bread, and you see if they get worse. And then just the thought of taking something that might be gluten, their symptoms shot up. And this was them just taking a placebo rice starch pill. But the reason we know this non-celiac gluten sensitivity exists is that the actual gluten pill made them feel even worse. And that's specifically what happened in the case of canker source.  Where did they even get the idea in the original study to try cutting out gluten? Well, back in the 60s it was reported that the blood of patients with bad canker source reacted to certain food proteins, like gluten, but had an even stronger reaction to the milk protein casein. This has since been more formally tested, 50 patients, with recurring canker source were compared to 50 healthy people for their levels of anti-gluten antibodies. Gleadin is a type of gluten protein, an anti-cows milk protein antibodies, and the canker source sufferers were no more likely to react to the gluten, but the levels of anti-milk proteins were significantly higher. In fact, the majority reacted to the cow's milk. These results indicate a strong association between high levels of anti-milk proteins in the blood with recurring canker source. But what we care about is do people actually get better or not when they cut out the milk? Well, upon hearing their results, three of the patients spontaneously decided to cut out all dairy products from their diet for a few months to see what happens, and it seemed to help. No reappearance of the source in the first patient. Same with the second, until they had some cow's milk ice cream. And in the third, the ulcers seemed to come with less frequency, but those were just some observations, not an actual study. You see, the same thing with certain food additives. Folks with recurring canker source may react more to certain food dyes, and so if you try people on a gluten-free diet or a dairy-free diet or a diet free of certain food additives, you'll get a few cases of people responding, in this case, 6 out of 11. Some better on the gluten-free, others better on the milk-free, others on the additive-free. But the responses were pretty dramatic, seen within a week, so it seems it might be worth giving these exclusion diets a try to see if there's a huge improvement. Can you just get an allergy test or something? Apparently not. For example, this poor woman, who suffered from recurring canker source since she was 2 years old, multiple painful lesions in her mouth almost constantly. They asked her about milk, and she said she rarely drank it because it appeared to trigger her more almost immediately, so they decided to look into it. They tested her for sensitivities to dairy, both so-called prick-and-pash allergy tests, and they were both negative. But hey, if she felt worse on dairy, might as well try cutting out all dairy products completely, and for the first time in her life, the ulcers went away and stayed away, unless she actually had some milk product. So even if people test negative, maybe worth a try to cut out all dairy and see what happens. Look, we know cow's milk may play a role in other allergic and autoimmune-type diseases, and there are these reports going back decades suggesting at least there's a subgroup of canker sore patients, for which dairy is a causative factor. However, awareness of this association is rare among both patients and health care providers. An improvement can happen rapidly. A boy and a girl both suffering for years with frequent multiple ulcerations they're apparently cured within two weeks. We don't know how often it works, we just know it does, sometimes. So as this 2017 paper in the Journal of the American Dental Association suggests, why not give a cow's milk protein elimination trial a try, particularly before the use of medications with potential side effects?


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby'scasebreaks.com coming at you with a quick little retail pack break, prison basketball retail pack break, number one four one with five impeccable basketball random team spots being given away. I think we have to do one or two more packs, sell a few spots straight up, and then I think we're, then I think we're in breaksville. So keep chipping away at that on jazby's casebreaks.com. We're gonna do the break itself first, big thanks to all of these folks right here, and then we'll do the randomizer for the giveaway at the end. Let's roll this, randomize it, one and a four, five times for each list names and teams. One, two, three, four, and five. After five times, we've got Lonnie down to J, one and a four, five times for teams, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. After five, we've got the wizards down to the clippers.  But Taylor, Griz, could be interesting out of this one pack break. Obviously the whole point of this, Brett with the Pelican, the whole point of this is to window spots. So there's not even a trade window, so let's just print and rip and then let's see what we got going on. I did not, Kyle. I was on Baltimore minus three, and I'm a lucky duck. I'm a lucky duck. There's the list right there. I think there's only four cards in here, so not much going on unless... Alright, so nothing too crazy there. Whole point of this, of course. That was a fun finish though. We were doing the Jasky Christmas party last night, and we were all hanging out, and we were all transfixed by the game, to be honest with you. Alright, now let's roll it. This is for the giveaway, so after four to six, ten times, it's gonna be top five after ten, in impeccable. Good luck. One, two, three, four, and tenth and final time, after ten. Now, from six down to 30, sad times there. Remember, we do have to do a couple more of these, so if you feel like trying again, there's another pack up on jaskyscasebreaks.com. Alright, top five, Jay, Marcus, Greg, Brett, and Jay. Congrats to the top five, you're an impeccable basketball. I'll see you for that one next time, jaskyscasebreaks.com.


Let's see How much fun we can have today. Hey guys, it's Wenji So today I wanted to show you what I eat in a day to stay healthy I have a confession to make guys when lockdown came I got really lazy with my diet during lockdown although you guys may not notice it wait on a short person It just kind of goes this way. I literally am following.  I'm sure she's got plenty of tall 40-year-old dudes with big noses to squeeze her boney-ass every night We a new routine, which I really wanted to show you guys to sort of lose weight slowly This is not a crash diet. It's just to get into new routines and new habits I also find that when I look after my health my mental health gets better, too I went on a spiral guys. It was it was not cute and guys.  This is horrible These better health scumbags are paying these influencers to pretend to be slightly depressed But they're such bad actors that they can't even pull it off I mean I mean to be fair this girl might have been depressed seven years ago before she had all the plastic surgery and Botox and lip fillers because she went from like maybe a four to a nine But what really irritated me and the reason I made this video was because this other complete Toolbag Eric Conover did a similar sponsorship. Oh, I'm so depressed in my 19 million dollar apartment in New York City go to better health. It's Disgusting. It's absolutely Disgusting what these people are doing. It's so I don't know how anyone follows them anymore after these It's not like they're like, oh if you have mental health go check out this sponsorship for better health No, they're pretending that they were depressed themselves yet. No honesty whatsoever.  Let's go guys You'll need some kale broccoli eggs some Snap peas and some parmesan cheese got all the ingredients.  I mean, this is what grasshoppers eat That's why they're green and yeah, she's not completely vegan. She has a small amount of animal protein To call this a salad it sauteed vegetables with an egg on top I mean these people getting really creative, but this is like conventional wisdom of what people think is healthy Oh, it's green. It's low in calories. Therefore. It's healthy You know, would this be completely horrendous if everything was super high quality and organic, you know, the green Flavonoids all those chemicals in those vegetables are not good for your body good for your liver You know, if you have a high gut motility and it's high quality Maybe you can you know get past this meal a couple times a week But eating this on a consistent basis is not good a lot of anti nutrients a lot of chemicals a lot of things that you Don't want to be consuming let alone those other problems that pesticides the herbicides the fungicides If it's just what the average person is eating conventional egg, you know estrogen bomb a lot of hormones At least you're getting some protein, but it's still very high omega-6 not good for you Parmesan and Reggiano cheese actually a very very high quality thing to be consuming if it's the real deal During my YouTube journey, there were times where my mental health was not great It meant that I wasn't productive and I wasn't really doing what I wanted to be doing Just like a personal trainer for your physical health better help will find you your very own like like did she ever speak about it in the past?  It's not a crisis line. It's not a self-help line It's professional counseling done securely online. The great thing about better help is you get matched anywhere in the world That matches your needs. Okay, if I Use better help am I gonna get a vegan therapist that looks like you Then I might do it better help you can log in and send a message to a counselor any time But better help facilitates the change process really easily so you can find a counselor.  So hey, give us some more money That matches you and the good thing about this is it's easy and free to change counselors It's more affordable than traditional offline counseling And if you guys need financial aid, that is also available right now better help is offering Yeah, I hope this I hope this sociopaths boyfriend is using this shit I'll found 10% off the first month. So don't forget to check the link down below to get your time And I didn't say this at the start like when G. I was at wedgie I Someone probably knows what it's answering the comments. So check it out. Take charge of your mental health for right now Mmm, it's pretty good guys love snap peas So when you know peel them properly, I don't really like cold salad But this warm salad is so much better much nicer when it's cooked guys. This is the most important part this Next I'm gonna show you guys what healthy snacks. I have cause I have unhealthy snacks all the time red rock Deli it's sweet chili and sour cream. I'm talking to you my top healthy snack is this seaweed I love the seaweed you can get like Korean or Japanese. This is one made in New Zealand So I don't know how a seaweed actually gets certified organic Maybe if it's grown in a controlled environment that's not polluted And I guess if you're gonna get seaweed from somewhere in New Zealand might be the only place It's not polluted but I did a video a couple months back on is fish too toxic to eat and those same principles apply to Seaweed and how polluted it gets I personally try to avoid most things from the ocean unless it's like a high quality caviar Actually, yeah, this is really good. It's really healthy because when I want to snack I want something like dry and crunchy and kind of like salty thing as well that I really like to snack on I will get one of these kind bars. My favorite flavor is the doc chocolate Really just falling into the conventional health trap about what people think is healthy I've tried every single protein energy Mixed nut bar at the store. They all have low quality crappy ingredients. This isn't organic So it's definitely full of chemicals. It's high omega-6 because it's not based There's a reason I came up with the best bars because not only do these bars taste like crap They're horrible for you and they're not gonna help you achieve your health goal Whether it be feeling better or looking better That's in sea salt. It just literally saved me on tour because I didn't have time to eat breakfast I always have one of these in my bag.  This is really good Also guys, if you feel like dessert and you have a sweet tooth go for fruit guys I'm trying to replace my ice cream desserts and all that kind of desserts with the fruit And one of my favorite fruits right now is blueberries. It's got lots of antioxidants Which is really good for your skin. I hope she watches this because I love the b-roll I'm just imagining her like standing in her kitchen like oh Let me eat these blueberries and not swallow them and pretend like I like them an Unopened container of blueberries straight from the supermarket clearly you've been eating them and everything like that My other favorite fruit is like cherries guys cherries can be so expensive I paid $30 for cherries because it was out of season. This was on sale. All right guys. It's dinner time I can't wait to show you my go-to dinner add some oil into your pan and then add the plant-based meat This actually cooks really quickly because it ain't me once you see it cooked through add some kale or whatever veggies Do you want to put in this dish and then add the tofu all of it? I mean you can't really say something cooks quickly because it ain't me if it was never brought in the first place It's just a mix of chemicals soy Omega-6 that is made to look like meat heavily heated heavily processed Ingredients cook super quick guys. So it actually doesn't take too long guys I forgot the final touch is spring onion. Oh my gosh. I can't wait to dig in it smells so good What I love about this tofu it is super soft and bouncy and literally eat this with a spoon But oh my gosh mmm flavor and everything you don't really notice it's not me like I mean you kind of notice But it's not that bad. It kind of tastes like me. She's she's not She didn't take a bite of it. This is so funny She did not take one bite of the food. There's nothing on her teeth. The spoon is clean Let's see if she let's see if she eats it and bacon e it's got like that barbecue flavor in the meat It's actually pretty good. It's not bad if you guys haven't tried plant-based meat Give it a go and the spring onions just got that freshness to it. Oh, she did eat it. All right.  So that's kind of all right That's enough. That's enough. So I guess she's technically not vegan But you know if you have you know hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend over a couple years in plastic surgery and personal Assistance that the makeup artist professional camera people to edit your stuff Maybe you can swing this diet, but I would not trust a word She says and the main lesson of this video is not nutrition or diet related It's to not trust any of these influencers. This is a more obvious example of this But for the most part anyone that has a gigantic youtube channel You cannot trust the words coming out of their mouth as truthful as genuine as it might be You know if someone's in a three four five million dollar apartment and they're going to the supermarket and telling you You should eat grain-fed beef or you know tofu. They're lying to your face So thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully you like this I had a little bit of fun today So if you could please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below Subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and make sure to click that notification bell So they don't notify you of my videos therefore you can check out frank dash to final calm to support All of my businesses as well as help yourself become happier and healthier Thanks again for joining me guys. I'll see you for tomorrow if I don't fly to Dubai with my new girlfriend


Last time on this series we started an in-depth discussion about the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. If you didn't see that video, I'd strongly encourage you to check it out. But for those who haven't gotten to it yet, or who forgot what we talked about, here's a quick recap. The Social Dilemma features a bunch of big tech insiders who have become afraid of their own creations, and believe that in spite of their best intentions, social media is destroying society. First, they say that advertising and commercial incentives compel social media companies to disregard people's privacy and create systems that manipulate their own users for nefarious ends. Next, they claim that these same incentives push social networks to intentionally trap people in bubbles of information that promote political tribalism and give groups of people completely different sets of facts about the world. And throughout all of this, they equate social media to a drug that users can't escape from. In short, thanks to capitalism, social media companies have created an addictive product that is ruining everyone's lives, making them feel bad about themselves, forcing them to buy products they don't actually want, and radicalizing our politics. It's all very scary stuff. And the film makes sure you never stop feeling terrified by intercutting the interview footage with melodramatic scripted scenes, and by reinforcing the tone with a score that sounds like it's been ripped from a horror movie. Unfortunately, even when some of its points seem to have merit on the surface, the film is actually terrible. The filmmakers butcher facts and make hyperbolic arguments in order to hawk a narrative that's terrifying and sensational, but also mostly false. Meanwhile, it completely glosses over much more important issues like censorship and the ideological biases encoded in the very algorithms that define what users all over the world are allowed to see and discuss on these platforms. In part one, we talked about the first two themes of advertising and political tribalism. I'm not going to waste any time rehashing all of that here, though, because there's still a ton more wrong with the film to cover in part two. We still have to talk about the effects social media actually has on people's psychological well-being, and more importantly, we need to deal with the half-baked platitudes and catchy soundbites that the social dilemma offers as the solution to every problem. There is a lot to be concerned about with the way most social media companies operate right now, but deceptive documentaries that mislead people into worrying about the wrong issues won't help us fix anything. So hit that subscribe button, ring the bell icon, and stick with me for the second half of our two-part discussion of the social dilemma on this episode of Out of Frame. One of the most important subjects that the social dilemma tries to deal with is the potentially damaging psychological effects of social media. Unlike the film's horror movie depiction of advertising, there's way more truth to the idea that social media is a drug, but it still manages to wildly oversimplify the problem and utterly falls apart around the challenge of what to do about it. To really understand what's going on here, we're going to need to pause for a second and talk about the human brain. There's a cluster of neurons in your midbrain called the ventral tegmental area. It's associated with reward prediction and recognition, and it produces dopamine whenever we feel certain kinds of positive stimuli, such as gaining approval from our friends. Dopamine is perhaps most popularly associated with pleasure, but more accurately, it's a neurotransmitter that compels us to do more or less of whatever we associated with. For example, when a ton of people like our posts on social media, we're getting positive feedback and gaining social status, which our VTA recognizes as a reward. The VTA releases dopamine and we feel like repeating the behavior that got us that result. But it's possible to become addicted to that dopamine rush and keep trying to do more and more of the thing that's making you feel good, even if it's not actually good for you. In other words, the same neurological system that helps people navigate social situations and make better decisions can be co-opted by drugs and alcohol or even social media and become harmful. Persuasive technology is just sort of designed intentionally applied to the extreme where we really want to modify someone's behavior. We want them to take this action. We want them to keep doing this with their finger. So you don't know when you're gonna get it and you don't know if you're gonna get something, which operates just like the slot machines in Vegas. Every time you see it there on the counter, you know if you reach over it, it just might have something for you. And so you play that slot machine to see what you got, right? That's not by accident, that's a design technique. When you don't get the reward you're hoping for, it can be physically painful. In one of the main stories from the scripted drama part of the social dilemma, the family's youngest daughter posts a photo of herself to this universe's version of Instagram. Her friends make fun of her ears. It hurts. Of course it does. This is a huge danger of social media. As rock star social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains a few minutes later. There has been a gigantic increase in depression and anxiety for American teenagers, which began right around between 2011 and 2013. The number of teenage girls out of 100,000 in this country who are admitted to a hospital every year because they cut themselves or otherwise harm themselves. That number was pretty stable until around 2010, 2011. And then it begins going way up. It's up 62% for older teen girls. It's up 189% for the preteen girls. Of all the things in this documentary, this is the most genuinely scary. So yeah, it's pretty clear that social media plays a role here. But correlation isn't causation. So what exactly is the extent of its role? And more importantly, what can we actually do about it? I think it's super important to be realistic about this. Just because we see a correlation between social media use and an increase in teenage depression doesn't mean that the actual causes or solutions are simple. The whole point of social media is to allow us to connect with other people by sharing our personal thoughts and experiences with the world. When we do that, we're opening ourselves up to the possibility of negative reactions. But we're also opening ourselves up to a lot of good things as well. It's easy today to lose sight of the fact that these tools actually have created some wonderful things in the world. They've reunited, lost family members, they've found organ donors. I mean, there were meaningful systemic changes happening around the world because of these platforms that were positive. A recent study that tracked almost 600 adolescents for two years and over 1100 college undergraduate students for six years found no causal relationship between rates of social media usage and depression. If anything, it found that especially girls who already showed signs of clinical depression were more likely to use social media later on, most likely as a way of reaching out for help to make themselves feel better. Researchers are still studying these things, but I think it's a mistake to assume that the existence of social media inherently leads to bad outcomes. To the contrary, I think it has the power to be immensely positive and help people find connection and reduce feelings of isolation. On a personal note, I've met some of my best friends through these networks. I even met my wife on Facebook. That wouldn't have been possible if lawmakers or the tech bros in San Francisco made it harder for content and ideas to be shared with other people because folks like Tristan Harris are afraid that some of them won't be able to handle it. Ila, the girl in the social dilemmas melodrama, wasn't hurt because social media apps exist, or because they showed the photo she voluntarily chose to post to all her friends. She wanted to share the photo. Her friends and followers want to see her content. She was hurt both because one of her friends was mean about it and because as a young girl she's not yet prepared to handle critical comments. Learning to deal with criticism takes time. It also takes going through some pain and ego bruising. The thing is, when you're trying to carve out a unique identity, you're going to start putting more of yourself out there.   Ila hasn't done that yet, but her pain wasn't caused by social media. Her classmates could just as easily have been mean to her in school. Growing up before social media existed, I can promise you kids weren't any less horrible to each other back then. Now, the one thing that does make social media different today is that when the whole world can see what you post, the whole world can comment on it. And just as a flood of overly complementary reactions can drive some people toward a narcissistic need for attention, a flood of negative reactions can be devastating. The problem is, there's nothing social media companies can do about this without breaking the core thing that's actually good about their product. We want to be able to share our content with the world. But in doing that, we all need to be strong enough as individuals to accept that this might result in criticism. Unfortunately, this isn't something any change in policy at the corporate or state level can solve. Contrary to what Tristan Harris and his Center for Humane Technology would have you believe, government regulation isn't going to fix any of this. All the soundbites in the social dilemma are fine slogans, but let's not confuse catchphrases with the complexity of reality. The running theme throughout the film is that none of you has any agency over your own lives or choices. You're easily brainwashed by companies looking to sell yoga pants. You can't help yourself but to become obsessed with other people's opinion of you. You can't even put your phones down when the stress of social media gets overwhelming. You're all just the unsuspecting victims of evil advertisers, algorithms, and powers beyond your control. And the solutions they offer are either to smash your phone and throw it into the ocean, or to have the federal government regulate social media companies. It's pretty sad to see how many people think this is a great idea, but y'all need to remember that we've seen how much Congress knows about the internet. Have you considered having an online school that people could go to with a Google rep and you could kind of log in and kind of ask questions? And Tristan Harris' organization offers surprisingly little in the way of concrete solutions. Instead, it seems a lot like Gavin Belson's Tethics from Silicon Valley. For too long, these large tech companies have harvested our data, they have violated our privacy, they have tracked our every move.  You did that. He did that. Starting today, I will be asking prominent members of the tech community to sign their name onto this. Tech Ethics, or Tethics for short. I've scoured the Center for Humane Technology's website, and I've found nothing that even comes close to being a coherent policy proposal. Instead, I've found platitudes like Put People First, and vague questions built on irrational ideas like the precautionary principle that would have killed just about every innovation in human history if they were actually part of the law. The closest thing to a complete argument the site provides is a link to a Financial Times article where Harris demands that the government regulate internet companies like public utilities. But he never really goes into detail about the specifics of what that would mean. And if you think this will make social media companies better, you're going to be massively disappointed. Our public utilities are awful precisely because of the way they're regulated. They're slow-moving localized monopolies that provide horrible customer experiences and resist innovation because the rules prevent competition, and nothing about their products and business models can change without state approval. One-size-fits-all regulations almost always put a huge burden on smaller, newer companies, while barely affecting the billion dollar giants that have teams of lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists on their payroll already. And you know what? Even though the social dilemma makes it seem like demanding more regulation is a heroic outsider's quixotic quest, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have all repeatedly demanded more government control over their industry. But giving the government more regulatory power over the internet is a recipe for disaster. For one thing, unlike companies that use anonymous, aggregated data to create better products and improve user experiences, governments all over the world have found ways to get access to individuals' personal information, and they've used it to track people and put them in jail. So it's not like we can trust the state with protecting anyone's privacy. Likewise, a lot of people think we should repeal section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which ensures that social media companies aren't liable for speech on their platforms the same way publishers are. But this would almost certainly push them to censor users even more than they do now. If they're liable for what other people say, and if they're open to being sued the same way publishers are, then just like any major magazine or newspaper, they're going to have to hire editors, set standards, write style guides, and restrict the subjects people can talk about and what words or phrases can be used in order to reduce their risk. And there's no law that will ever be written that will stop trolls from being mean on the internet. None of this stuff solves the actual problems with social media. In part one, I talked about the silly claim that capitalism and advertising, the business model that keeps social media companies afloat, is to blame for the harmful effects these services may have on people's lives. Both Tristan Harris and Justin Rosenstein claim that if these companies were actually making their products to benefit their users instead of their advertisers, they would be better. But curiously, they never actually explain what they mean or how social media would be different. If you actually understand the business model, social media companies, and a lot of other online services, function exactly like broadcast TV or terrestrial radio stations. The relationship between product and advertisers is actually symbiotic, not dictatorial. TV studios both innovate original creative ideas, finding willing advertisers to support them, and respond to advertiser preferences, producing content that appeals to broad audiences. Either way, TV networks are competing with each other to distribute the most entertaining shows and constantly serve people content that they actually like. If they don't, there's no audience. If there's no audience, there will be no advertisers. People who advertise their stuff online are paying for the privilege of reaching the massive audiences that spend their time on the social media platforms. But that only works when the social companies do everything in their power to make as good a user experience as possible. So rather obviously, their goal is to benefit their users. The commercial incentives of social media are precisely what has continually driven improvements in online social connection from Usenet groups and ICQ chat to MySpace to Facebook and YouTube, and they're what will drive the next wave of innovation with emerging services like Twitch, Discord, and who knows, Miwi, Parler, or something else that doesn't even exist yet. It's the users themselves who will decide which services they most value, and social media companies will have to respond to user preferences because they want to attract advertisers. Or if they all move to a direct pay model, they'll have to respond because they want to attract user subscriptions. No matter what, it's us, the users of these platforms, who are actually in control. And while that can be sort of scary seeing what some people post on the internet, it's also why there's plenty we can do about the real problems of censorship and psychological harm without getting the state involved. Firstly, we need to do a much better job of protecting kids and helping them navigate the risks of social media addiction, but probably not the way most people seem to think. Kids don't need to be coddled or canceled. Everybody has to learn how to deal with criticism and figure out how to navigate an ultra-connected digital world because that's definitely not going away. You could shut down the service and destroy 20 billion dollars of shareholder value, but you can't in practice put the genie back in the bottle. In my view, the only way this is ever going to happen without creating more problems is if parents and influential figures help young people understand that even though they'll never be able to control what other people say about them, they can learn to control how they react.  Harassing people for saying something unpopular or making jokes that don't land is a good way to make it a lot scarier for young people to figure out who they are. Creating a culture that actively tries to destroy people for things they say in their adolescence isn't the same thing as providing constructive criticism. We want kids to learn to be less fragile, not crush them before they've had a chance to develop their own identity.  It's up to you to show your kids how to be responsible with this technology. Secondly, I want to reiterate something I said in part one. Companies using better, more accurate data to connect people with the content and products that they might actually want is a good thing, as long as everyone is allowed to compete on a level playing field and the social media companies don't tip the scales too much. But too often that's exactly what they're doing. We all should have a ton of serious concerns about the amount of control a handful of coders and executives at Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have over the ideas we're all allowed to talk about. But the way we stop them from dictating the limits of people's speech isn't to let the government control what we're allowed to say or decide how the platforms are allowed to operate instead. That's much more dangerous than what we have now and it will ultimately destroy entrepreneurial freedom for the emerging competitors who will eventually take over. We can push back against social media censorship without abandoning the First Amendment or giving the state power over a huge segment of our mass communication industry. The best way to solve these problems is by expressing our criticism in videos like this and by voting with our time and our wallets. If a social network becomes too censorious, speak up on the platform and try to make your voice heard. Defend people who have been unjustly banned. Choose not to hit the block button at the first sign of a comment or content that makes you uncomfortable. And if worse comes to worse, move to alternative platforms and reduce the time you spend on the networks that don't support free speech. When their daily user numbers start to fall and advertisers move their dollars to new platforms, the complacent giants that dominate the social media industry today will take notice. Finally, don't listen to the social dilemma on any of this stuff. There's a lot to criticize about the effects social media has had on our society, but those issues can't and won't be fixed by the fear-mongering nonsense passed off as truth in this documentary. When you think about technology and it being an existential threat, you know, that's a big claim. It is a big claim and it's wrong. We need a healthy dose of reality, not Luddite charlatans from the social dilemma freaking people out about stuff that isn't really a problem. So I hope you don't take it seriously. Let's all come together to fix what's wrong with social media, not break what's actually working. Hey everybody, thanks for watching this episode of Out of Frame. As I said on the last video, the state of social media is an incredibly important subject and I'm really looking forward to talking with you all about it in the comments. Go ahead and tag me down there and I'll do my best to reply as much as I can. 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Hi everyone and a big welcome back to my channel. So there are so many amazing sounding books coming out in 2021. If you haven't seen my first anticipated releases video of the year then I will leave it linked around. Honestly, the books sound so good. But equally, as ever, there are so many amazing sounding backlist books as well which are just as important as the new releases. So I've compiled a list of around 10 backlist books that I really want to get around to this year. We have some literary fiction, we have some poetry and some fantasy. Some of these books I've been meaning to get to for forever. Some by my favourite authors, some just taking my fancy for whatever reason. I thought we could just chat about this list today. You can get me hyped for these books and perhaps we can check back in with this video later in the year and we can all hold me accountable. I do have a similar list of classics I want to get to in 2021 as well, but that is a whole thing in itself. So look out for that video coming at some point as well in the undetermined future. So let's start with a book that I have actually already read. It was one of the first books I read this year and that is Conversations with Friends by Sally Bruni. This is an Irish literary fiction novel following two university best friends named Francis and Bobby when they become friends with and become involved with this married couple. Of course I've been meaning to read this book ever since I read Normal People in 2019 and it became one of my favourite books ever. I never thought that I would enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed Normal People. Spoiler, I didn't. But I still always really wanted to read this and to see where Sally Bruni came from, see what her debut was like and I also just generally really like her writing style and her introspective character focused writing. So I knew that I would enjoy aspects of this at least. You will be able to hear my full thoughts on this one in my January recent reads video coming soon. Next up is Exciting Times by Nisha Dolan. Kind of a similar vibe to Conversations with Friends. This is another Irish literary novel following a young woman who moves from Dublin to Hong Kong to teach English to kids. I believe there is a male banker, a female lawyer and a love triangle. I need to read this book because everyone and their dog read this book last year including Cameron, my husband who really enjoyed it. Exciting Times, Jasmine hasn't read it, she should. Hang on. It's one that's been on my radar for a while. It's one I've been excited about for a while. Why didn't I just read it last year when everyone else was reading it?  I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this one. It's very me. Literary, millennial fiction, character focused, relationship focused. Plus everyone says it's really good so high hopes. Next book I need to read this year is A Year of Marvelous Ways by Sarah Winerman. This is a historical novel set primarily a couple of years after the end of the Second World War in Cornwall. It follows a 90-year-old woman and a young soldier who form a surprising friendship. You may know if you are familiar with my channel that I absolutely adore Sarah Winerman. She is one of my favorite authors. I first read one of her novels when God was a Rabbit a few years ago after Cameron randomly bought me it as a treat from a charity shop, loved it. I then read Tin Man, her most recent novel, which to this day is just one of the most perfect novels I have ever read. Her only other existing novel is This One, which has been on my shelves for a few years now. And I've actually just started this one. I am buddy reading it with Cameron. He's away at the moment doing eight weeks residential training to be a firefighter, so he suggested that while he was away we could do a buddy read. Interestingly, the premise of this one isn't something either of us would typically go for. We don't really like World War II novels. However, we both do love Sarah Winerman. We are obsessed with her writing, so we really wanted to try this. Very excited. The next book is A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, set in the 1950s in a newly independent India. This is a pretty wide-reaching novel, I believe. It explores four different families with a young woman named Latta at its center, whose mother is trying to find her a suitable husband. So I was first introduced to Vikram Seth when my friend Alex bought me an equal music by him a couple of years ago. Such an amazing novel, criminally underrated. I want to see more people reading it, please. This is Vikram Seth's more popular novel, I believe, especially now that it has been made into a BBC series. I really want to watch the series. I really want to read the book first. I think it's going to be amazing. Vikram Seth is such a beautiful writer, and this just sounds epic and wonderful. It's just a bit of a chunker, I believe, so I need to get into the right headspace to pick it up. Next up is Gilead by Marilyn Robinson. Can you believe I have never read anything by Marilyn Robinson? This is the first novel in a kind of quartet of companion novels, I believe. I don't know much about it. I just know that it is set around the 1950s and tells the story of a dying reverend. Marilyn Robinson is just one of those authors that I have always heard about, always planned on reading, but just never done the thing. Over the past year I've been hearing more and more about her as she brought out her most recent novel, Jack. Everybody loves her. She is so incredibly acclaimed, so I thought let's get this book for Christmas and make it happen. Honestly, I'll be kind of upset if this one doesn't blow me away. Next up is Empire Falls by Richard Russo. Now I think about it, this one was also introduced to me by my friend Alex, weirdly. He has good taste. Once again, I know hardly anything about this one. I know that it is set in a blue collar town in America and follows the life of a man who works in the Empire Grill. So Richard Russo is just one of those names, isn't he? Won the Pulitzer? Probably a big deal. I'm just excited to finally read something by him. I think this is going to be really good. I love chunky, litific books that tell the story of a whole life, really focusing in on lots of different characters and themes, and I definitely get those vibes from this one. The first poetry collection that I wanted to read this year was Falling Awake by Alice Oswald. This is another one that I've actually already read this year. Get a couple under my belt, make myself feel good. This is a relatively new contemporary poetry collection that is incredibly popular. It explores themes of the natural world and our physical selves and mortality. So I really liked this poetry collection. Obviously, you have to wait for my January recent reads to hear my full thoughts, but rest assured this was really good. It was what I hoped for. I am very happy to have read a full collection by Alice Oswald now. I'm excited to read more. Next up is Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney. A bit of an earlier poetry collection. I believe this was Seamus Heaney's first collection written in the 1960s. I've read another one of Seamus Heaney's poetry collections, Human Chain, and I've just seen him everywhere. Obviously, he is a huge deal in Irish poetry and just poetry in general. I came across one poem from this collection in an anthology I read last year. I believe it was called Blackberry Picking. I absolutely loved it, and so I thought this should be the next collection I pick up by him. I believe this collection also has a large focus on the natural world, as well as exploring Seamus Heaney's childhood in Ireland. I already know that this is going to be good. A couple of fantasy books now to spice things up a little. The first one is The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. This is the third book on this list that I have already read. I am very proud. This is a standalone, epic, sapphic, high fantasy novel with dragons.  That is basically all you need to know before diving into this one. It was all I knew. I had wanted to read this one for around a year. I'd seen so many people on booktube loving it. Cameron then read it as well, also loved it. And yes, thankfully, I also really loved this one. It was so much fun. Great world, fab characters, exciting plot. I also really loved that it was a standalone and everything was contained into one book. Of course, I will talk about this more in my January recent reads. And the final book in my backlist TBR for this year is The Poppy Wall by RF Quang. Book hung. Please do correct me if I'm wrong. Now, this book being on this TBR will not come as a shock to any of you if you have even spent one minute on booktube or book twitter over the past six months.  People are obsessed. All I know is that this is an epic military historical fantasy series based off of 20th century China. I have no doubts that I'm going to love this. As we all know, I love an epic fantasy series every now and again. This sounds amazing. I believe the hype. I trust you all. Really excited to experience this whole thing for myself. So there we have some backlist books that I really want to get to this year. Please, please let me know if you've read any of them. Tell me they're amazing. Tell me to read them soon. Please also let me know if there are any backlist books that you really want to get to this year that you've been putting off for whatever reason. Hopefully we can all encourage each other to pick up these books down below in the comments. Thank you so much everyone for watching. I really appreciate it. I hope you're all doing well and I will see you soon in another video. Bye guys.


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