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1. dudisubekti · 1790165412 · focus · HN ↗

   This "loneliness" part of this article is confusing to me.

   > People are more alone than ever, but they’re not feeling much lonelier than they used to. So maybe all this extra solitude is...fine?

   Okay but the data examined for "more alone" is US data with unclear age range (most likely adults). But the data examined for "not feeling much lonelier" is UK data and US school teenager data. I feel like there's a massive blind spot with the fact there's no US adult data...?

   1. bluGill · 1790167526 · focus · HN ↗

      That was the point of the first part: nobody has data and so we cannot say there is any trend.

      1. dudisubekti · 1790171067 · focus · HN ↗

         But then we can't claim "There is no epidemic of loneliness" without proper data too. The honest (shame this word is ruined by LLMs) conclusion is "we don't know if there's an epidemic of loneliness," which can go either way: either there really is no epidemic of loneliness, or is undetected.

         1. lemmetellya · 1790172244 · focus · HN ↗

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