Of course you’re correct, but may I make an argument why the New York Times might have unwittingly stumbled into being right, too?
This is the key:
“ Wallace-Wells begins by pointing out that in 2011 there were “a new set of guidelines that recommended that teenage girls should be screened annually for depression by their primary care phys…
Of course you’re correct, but may I make an argument why the New York Times might have unwittingly stumbled into being right, too?
This is the key:
“ Wallace-Wells begins by pointing out that in 2011 there were “a new set of guidelines that recommended that teenage girls should be screened annually for depression by their primary care physicians and … required that insurance providers cover such screenings in full.””
What if depression increased not, as Wallace-Wells argues, because screening found more of it… but because *screening itself causes depression*??
In brief: doctors and teachers are “checking in” far far more than ever before on kids’ sad feelings, and just like the trans social contagion, you get what you measure.
So the times guy may be right, only not in the way he thinks…
This was the first thing I thought of as well -- how often does repeatedly asking the question end up planting the thought in the child's somewhat suggestible mind?
Of course you’re correct, but may I make an argument why the New York Times might have unwittingly stumbled into being right, too?
This is the key:
“ Wallace-Wells begins by pointing out that in 2011 there were “a new set of guidelines that recommended that teenage girls should be screened annually for depression by their primary care physicians and … required that insurance providers cover such screenings in full.””
What if depression increased not, as Wallace-Wells argues, because screening found more of it… but because *screening itself causes depression*??
My case for that is here:
https://gaty.substack.com/p/how-we-make-children-miserable-and
In brief: doctors and teachers are “checking in” far far more than ever before on kids’ sad feelings, and just like the trans social contagion, you get what you measure.
So the times guy may be right, only not in the way he thinks…
This was the first thing I thought of as well -- how often does repeatedly asking the question end up planting the thought in the child's somewhat suggestible mind?