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The data that support the findings of this reply are available from Monitoring the Future (MTF) and the UK data service (MCS), but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study and are therefore not publicly available. However, data are available from the relevant third-party repository after agreement to their terms of usage. Information about data collection and questionnaires is available on the OSF at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7XHA2. For brevity, we have not included all of the sample size measurements in this manuscript, but they are available in the data files on the OSF.
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The code used to analyse the relevant data are available on the Open Science Framework at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/BYQM5.
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Extended Data Fig. 1 Comparing digital technology use correlation with well-being measures to listening to music with well-being measures in the MTF dataset.
Plots of the variables listening to music and mean digital technology use against the mean of all well-being measures in the survey. The small points are individual participants, while the lines are mean values.
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Orben, A., Przybylski, A.K. Reply to: Underestimating digital media harm. Nat Hum Behav 4, 349–351 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0840-y
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