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TIL America’s Loneliness Epidemic: Nearly 40 MILLION American adults now live alone and they are 64% more likely to be depressed than their peers (alltoowhale.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

a staggering 15% increase from the numbers recorded in 2012.

Is it though? I did not "stagger back" when I read that, nor was I "astonished or deeply shocked" upon learning this, and if anything, the rate of increase seems to have slowed down quite a bit from the 60s & 70s, based on the slope of the red squiggly line.

It seems rather like this increase was entirely to be expected, and if anything might be lower than some naive expectations based on that earlier slope value would have predicted?

But that description would probably bait fewer clicks so... shockingly staggeringly extremely excessively massive increases in numbers it is then, it seems. A whopping 15%.