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They have. But I do not believe they were as common prior to the 1960s as they are in the 2020s.
by r3trohack3r 2y ago
They have.
But I do not believe they were as common prior to the 1960s as they are in the 2020s.
- squigz 2y agoDo you have data to inform that belief?
- r3trohack3r 2y agohttps://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/80491/1/cesifo_wp4366.pdf https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/80491/1/cesifo_wp436... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37156255/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37156255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947250/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947250/
- superb_dev 2y agoWere they less common, or unknown/heavily stigmatized?
- TylerE 2y agoAnother confounding variable is that we got so much better at testing many things that we have people living long enough to clearly manifest problems that may not have decades or centuries ago. Sort of like how a big part of the increase in cancer deaths are people living long enough to die of cancer.
- yareal 2y agoIn the 1960s you had to learn to mask your differences or you would suffer violence directed at you. We used to beat kids for not behaving in the ways we expect. Get enough beatings, you learn to hide the thing that gets you beat. I'm not at all convinced it was less common back then, just more hidden.
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