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0 pointstarboreus4y ago0 comments

Except that empirically, on average, they're miserable, by self-report. It's the most depressed generation.

https://www.mhanational.org/number-people-reporting-anxiety-... https://www.aecf.org/blog/generation-z-and-mental-health

Not great reports but I've read actual papers on this in the past.

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Bancakes4y ago

I see those are American self-reports. From experience, here around Eastern Europe, I am surrounded by people content with being single. If anything, life doesn't get cheaper.

tsol4y ago

So they say, but single people are statistically more unhappy to the degree that they don't live as long as married people. Saying this as a single person

Bancakes4y ago

Best response I can think of is 'Simpson's paradox'

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0 pointstarboreus4y ago0 comments

Except that empirically, on average, they're miserable, by self-report. It's the most depressed generation.

https://www.mhanational.org/number-people-reporting-anxiety-... https://www.aecf.org/blog/generation-z-and-mental-health

Not great reports but I've read actual papers on this in the past.

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Bancakes4y ago

I see those are American self-reports. From experience, here around Eastern Europe, I am surrounded by people content with being single. If anything, life doesn't get cheaper.

tsol4y ago

So they say, but single people are statistically more unhappy to the degree that they don't live as long as married people. Saying this as a single person

Bancakes4y ago

Best response I can think of is 'Simpson's paradox'

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