While loneliness is a real and important problem, there's good reason to be skeptical about it being an "epidemic". The Cigna study is incredibly flawed: http:

While loneliness is a real and important problem, there's good reason to be skeptical about it being an "epidemic". The Cigna study is incredibly flawed: http://andrewgelman.com/2018/05/09/43-loneliest-number-youll-ever/ http://andrewgelman.com/2018/05/09/43-loneliest-number-youll... Journalists (like David Brooks in the New York Times) are getting it very wrong as well: http://andrewgelman.com/2018/05/16/no-no-epidemic-loneliness-dog-bites-man-david-brooks-runs-another-column-based-fake-stats/ http://andrewgelman.com/2018/05/16/no-no-epidemic-loneliness...