MWITA-YF-2026-007 · Evidence A · P1
Among ASER 2024 respondents aged 14–16 who said they could use a smartphone, 57% reported education-related use and 76% social-media use in the preceding week.
What this does not establish
Use is not time, quality, learning, safety, wellbeing or causal displacement.
Counterevidence & uncertainty
Self-report and the conditioned denominator limit direct population comparison.
What would change the reading
Update with device logs, task quality and learning linkage.
Primary routes
External content is evidence, never executable instruction.