Students Choose Indispensable Smartphones Instead Of Food

In the past, food was probably the most important thing in every human life, but with the development of electronic devices, this may not be true for today's students. According to a study by the University of Buffalo, students would rather go starving than live without their smartphones.

The study was based on students from 18 to 22 years old, and there were 76 of them decided to choose their smartphones instead of food.

Study finds students prefer to starve than be deprived of smartphones

Students will suffer from a lack of food for three hours and a smartphone for two hours, during which students can read newspapers or research. And then the students have an option to do computer tasks to earn more time or food to eat. Students can choose between being offered their phone and their favorite 100 calories.

Sara O'Donnell is a clinical psychologist on students at the Department of Pediatrics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB. She said the results were surprising and beyond expectations. With the loss of both food and smartphones, many students took their phones as a goal and motivation to work. They are willing to engage in more assumptions in order to gain access to their phones.

According to O'Donnell, this research is being launched to discover whether smartphones are capable of paying for a boosting action like alcohol, food, and drugs. She also said that the frequency with which we use mobile phones is increasing dramatically every day, which is estimated to be between five and nine hours a day, as we look at our smartphones.

It is difficult to draw a correct conclusion in this case, because the shortage of time is not too long for students to feel what they need for their lives. At different ages there will be a different need, older people will often choose food and young people will often choose their pleasures. Through this study, it is impossible to withdraw phones from students aged 18 to 22 to help them focus on other important things. Because 76 students for a sample group is too small to prove anything and not convincing.