But I'm 100% sure that if you asked the average American to assess their screen time over the last week, their responses would widely diverge from the actual number.
"Or maybe it’s because they report higher rates of depression and anxiety than the rest of the ideological spectrum?"
Can there be other factors such as the state of the American family? The bedrock of all culture and societies is the home; deficiencies there extrapolate to broader society.
Do young people with divorced parents have a higher rate of depression? Let's just assume that they do for this thought experiment.
Why, though?
Well intact homes tend to have all kinds of factors working in their favor. Parents with higher levels of education, higher income, almost certainly a lower rate of mental illness in the parents.
They likely got married a bit later in life. Had children after they were married, again, later in life.
And you also know what has an impact on things like age of first marriage, number of children, likelihood of marriage?
Political ideology and religious affiliation.
So if we say that kids who grew up in two parent households have lower rates of depression, is that factually true? Sure. It's more than likely the case.
The causal arrows go a dozen ways from each variable.
My (hair-brained) theory is that this is late-stage capitalism coming to roost. The increased-margin-of-quarterly-profit motive is everywhere and undermines trust.
There's a quip with a lot of truth attributed to Irving Kristol that a Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged by reality. Experience matters quite a lot. Those altar boys who we read about in scandals are probably not weekly church goers. Among older generations, those of us who have gone to college probably have stable careers, marriages, and homes while those of lesser education have less stability. Experience generated trust is also selective. We hate doctors but will do what our doctor recommends with little challenge.
While trust has diminished over generations, so has the trustworthiness of many institutions, political, financial, media. Older folks and those committed to those institutions as church goers or employees who have not been laid off would judge trustworthiness differently than those who have taken their own hit. A survey which takes aggregate data but still correlates multiple responses with individuals to get patterns, which this one does, will miss the experience component.
Collectivism? Nonsense. Liberalism is high-status and orthodox. All the media and corporations expound it and REQUIRE it. If you're in the high-status group you don't need to distrust people because you agree with everything they do and say.
Would love to see screen time as a variable, too.
Me, too, TD.
But I'm 100% sure that if you asked the average American to assess their screen time over the last week, their responses would widely diverge from the actual number.
"Or maybe it’s because they report higher rates of depression and anxiety than the rest of the ideological spectrum?"
Can there be other factors such as the state of the American family? The bedrock of all culture and societies is the home; deficiencies there extrapolate to broader society.
Causality is tough there.
Do young people with divorced parents have a higher rate of depression? Let's just assume that they do for this thought experiment.
Why, though?
Well intact homes tend to have all kinds of factors working in their favor. Parents with higher levels of education, higher income, almost certainly a lower rate of mental illness in the parents.
They likely got married a bit later in life. Had children after they were married, again, later in life.
And you also know what has an impact on things like age of first marriage, number of children, likelihood of marriage?
Political ideology and religious affiliation.
So if we say that kids who grew up in two parent households have lower rates of depression, is that factually true? Sure. It's more than likely the case.
The causal arrows go a dozen ways from each variable.
My (hair-brained) theory is that this is late-stage capitalism coming to roost. The increased-margin-of-quarterly-profit motive is everywhere and undermines trust.
There's a quip with a lot of truth attributed to Irving Kristol that a Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged by reality. Experience matters quite a lot. Those altar boys who we read about in scandals are probably not weekly church goers. Among older generations, those of us who have gone to college probably have stable careers, marriages, and homes while those of lesser education have less stability. Experience generated trust is also selective. We hate doctors but will do what our doctor recommends with little challenge.
While trust has diminished over generations, so has the trustworthiness of many institutions, political, financial, media. Older folks and those committed to those institutions as church goers or employees who have not been laid off would judge trustworthiness differently than those who have taken their own hit. A survey which takes aggregate data but still correlates multiple responses with individuals to get patterns, which this one does, will miss the experience component.
Look at who has dominated politics during their adult years and you don't have to wonder.
Collectivism? Nonsense. Liberalism is high-status and orthodox. All the media and corporations expound it and REQUIRE it. If you're in the high-status group you don't need to distrust people because you agree with everything they do and say.
This is fascinating.