[ExI] Bodies

[natasha at natasha.cc]

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.