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Eating disorders are slightly more common than they used to be - I think you're suffering from selection bias.
by lazyasciiart 7y ago
Eating disorders are slightly more common than they used to be - I think you're suffering from selection bias.
- anbop 7y agoIs this based on physician diagnosis or some objective metric like fraction of teens with BMI < X?
- lazyasciiart 7y agoThe fraction of teens with BMI < x is not a measure of how many teens have eating disorders. To pick the simplest possible confounding factor - teens dying of cancer would be false positives.
- armandososa 7y agoI most likely am. I had many friends/relatives in my youth with bulimia and anorexia but depression and anxiety were not even in our vocabulary. I'm no expert and I'm just saying what I see, like when talking to a group of friends, except that my group of friends is HN and likes to yell at me for being real dumb.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoYou're not just saying what you see. You are sharing elaborate theories that are demonstrating an inaccurate and unsympathetic perspective of teenagers with mental illness.