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Funny, as a French and non native English speaker, this title gives the feeling that they are testing the effectiveness of physical activity for "increasing" de
by Loic 3y ago
Funny, as a French and non native English speaker, this title gives the feeling that they are testing the effectiveness of physical activity for "increasing" depression, anxiety, distress.
I would have written "for reducing/mitigating" depression, ...
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- hombre_fatal 3y agoIt's prob simpler to just learn the lesson that "improve" doesn't mean "go up". And unlike the words "reduce" and "mitigate", you can use "improve" with a list of things that don't all swing the same direction. e.g. "By eating creatine, I improved my blood pressure (down) and bench press (up)."
- agumonkey 3y agoimproving a negative metrics has always carried a punny ambiguity