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To me the key point is #1. From reading the article, it seems that the number thrown around is 50-75% of students being on antidepressants. And yet the author
by in_cahoots 8y ago
To me the key point is #1. From reading the article, it seems that the number thrown around is 50-75% of students being on antidepressants. And yet the author of the post adds in stimulants when asking for responses. Even then, they don't provide anything but anecdotes. They run a ‘survey’ of 1800 people and don’t provide a single statistic as a result.
From this, it's hard to draw any conclusion at all about the prevalence of antidepressant or stimulant use. I'm surprised to see such shoddy work on HN's frontpage; the title is provocative and leads to discussion, but there's nothing to back it up.