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What kind of a headline is this? 90% of US adults say they are experiencing a mental health crisis? no! 90% of US adult say that the country is experiencing a
by aliswe 4y ago
What kind of a headline is this?
90% of US adults say they are experiencing a mental health crisis? no!
90% of US adult say that the country is experiencing a mental health crisis.
Why not ask experts instead???
- Slow_Hand 4y agoThat was my immediate thought as well. Most US adults are not experts on anyone’s mental health but their own and thus unsuited to comment on trends. When did the gut feelings of individuals about such matters become a stand-in for news reporting? I know journalists are also susceptible to writing about domains they don’t truly understand, but this kind of reporting is skipping right past the step of trying to engage with experts and proceeding to poll unqualified individuals about their gut feeling.
- klyrs 4y ago> Why not ask experts instead??? Because this is a story about public perception. While you may find it alarmist, a plain reading suggests that the people surveyed are alarmed.
- tanseydavid 4y agoRather than focus on the correctness (or incorrectness) of what 90% of US adults say or think about this matter -- why not notice how unusual it is for this many US adults to share a viewpoint? They might not be correct, but the fact that so many see it in the same way suggests to me that there is probably something worth examining more deeply.