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> distracted by having alerts appearing or texts or whatever they were, than any of their peers without a smart watch
Sure. But people don't get constantly distracted by ordinary watches. So again, it's not the watch itself that's distracting, but the dark patterns designed into it. For example the ways notifications are turned up to 1000 by default, to grab and monopolise attention. This is the phone-as-slot-machine phenomenon that The Social Dilemma talks about.
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