Tagged “evidence”
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Why a Trends Piece About Companion Apps Is a Genre, Not a Finding
Trends writing is assembled from company roadmaps, funding news, and last year's list. Here is how to tell a shift you can see from a predicted one.
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How to Read a 2026 Statistic About Companion Apps
This page supplies no figures, only the checks. Most statistics about this category fail the first two, and knowing which ones tells you what to discard.
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How a Market-Size Figure for This Category Gets Made
A market-size number is a product someone sells, built from assumptions that are rarely published. Here is the manufacturing process, and the tells.
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Why Nobody Can Tell You How Many People Use Companion Apps
No trustworthy count exists, and this page will not invent one. The category has no agreed boundary and every metric counts something other than people.
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The Ethical Questions in This Category, Stated as Questions
Verdicts about a company need facts nobody has. Questions you can put to a specific product are more useful, and here are the ones that hold up.
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How to Read a Claim About the Psychological Effects of Companion Apps
Nobody currently knows what these products do to people over time. Here is why the evidence is thin and how to read a study or a headline about it.
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The Loneliness Epidemic Framing and Who It Serves
A borrowed medical metaphor establishes a problem before anyone has shown the product solves it. Here is how to read the framing when you meet it.
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Does a Companion App Help With Loneliness, and How Would You Know
An app supplies a response, not the experience of being known. The test is not how it feels but which direction your contact with people moves.
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Practising Conversations With an App: What Transfers and What Does Not
Rehearsing with something that never gets bored leaves out most of what makes conversation hard. Here is how to tell whether the practice is transferring.
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How to Read an App's Claim That It Helps With Anxiety
A store listing that says for anxiety is marketing copy, not a clinical indication. Here is how to read the claim and what the app's own terms admit.