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> Instead, they tended to have an advantageous temperament/personality style, and negligible family history of mental disorder. As adults, they report superior
by epicureanideal 6y ago
> Instead, they tended to have an advantageous temperament/personality style, and negligible family history of mental disorder. As adults, they report superior educational and occupational attainment, greater life satisfaction, and higher-quality relationships.
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I assume they adjusted for this, but this is funny at a surface level reading. People with superior educational attainment, greater life satisfaction, and higher quality relationships have fewer mental health issues. Who would’ve thought?!
Another take: we have medicalized the normal human range of human emotions to the point that 83% of the population will at some point be considered to have a mental disorder.
- usgroup 6y agoI think that they argue that the causality works the other way around. All men are mortal doesn’t mean all mortals are men.