[ExI] Bodies
natasha at natasha.cc
natasha at natasha.cc
Tue Mar 9 21:50:22 UTC 2010
Quoting Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>:
> On 3/9/2010 3:17 PM, Keith Henson quoted:
>
>>>> Research published last month in the UK showed evidence of a link
>>>> between excessive internet use and depression. Leeds University
>>>> researchers, writing in the Psychopathology journal, said a small
>>>> proportion of internet users were classed as internet addicts and that
>>>> people in this group were more likely to be depressed than non-addicted
>>>> users.
>
>> Cause and effect could run either direction.
>
> Of course. It always astonishes me when people ignore this. I *hope*
> it's just journalists making their typical brainless summaries rather
> than the researchers. Or it might be that in this case the researchers
> are doing longitudinal studies from a standardized baseline, but that
> seems unlikely.
Good point Damien. I wonder what percentage of people are depressed,
and what the degree of depression is. Seems that the number is quite
high, regardless of Internet use.
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