• fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 days ago

    i don’t understand what the implication is here. is more likely to report depression symptoms meaningfully distinct from having them? do we think that men born in the summer are just more honest about their mental health struggles?

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      17 days ago

      The title of the post says summer men = more likely to be depressed.

      When the article doesn’t say that. It says that summer men are more likely to report depression tendencies then any other season .

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        17 days ago

        what does that distinction mean to you, aside from the literal wording being different?

        oh you mean they’re not diagnosed with depression, they are only reporting higher scores of anxiety and depression, i see

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          17 days ago

          Obviously being born in the summer makes one a worse lier, maybe it’s the heat burning off all the bad brain cells, or maybe we can teach that guy about occam’s razor