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Over half of the article is a polemic preamble against various theories, that usually means they don’t have a good case (not sure in this instance). Diagnostic
by mgamache 4y ago
Over half of the article is a polemic preamble against various theories, that usually means they don’t have a good case (not sure in this instance). Diagnostic substitution and increased diagnosis probably account for some of the increase. Even if 60 percent of the increase is not real, there still is a very large real effect that remains unexplained.
- webmaven 4y ago> Even if 60 percent of the increase is not real, there still is a very large real effect that remains unexplained. A major plausible proposed cause that didn't get a mention is assortative mating (the effect may not be strong enough to account for all the remaining increase, though): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31200929/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31200929/