People are, statistically speaking, really bad at figuring out what to worry about. See: terrorist attacks, plane crashes, shark attacks, abduction by strangers. So maybe this is good news about the pandemic.
Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills
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#12Worrying about a potentially deadly illness that you can do little about, vs worrying about losing your source of income and having to.. look for another job. I'm definitely more worried about infection, too.
My thought is the fear of additional medical costs due to infection on top of the bills I am expected to pay.
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#13People are, statistically speaking, really bad at figuring out what to worry about. See: terrorist attacks, plane crashes, shark attacks, abduction by strangers. So maybe this is good news about the pandemic.
No... that would just imply that it isn’t a useful signal. The case where it would be good is if people were good at worrying about the wrong things. I don’t think that is true, people worry about plenty of legitimate things too.
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#14Worrying about a potentially deadly illness that you can do little about, vs worrying about losing your source of income and having to.. look for another job. I'm definitely more worried about infection, too.
You can shield your kids from your financial problems much of the time. You can't shield them from a communicable disease.
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#15The survey does say just enough about their methods to make it sound like it's not at all something that can be taken all that seriously. "In a recent survey, we asked about 1,000 parents what their biggest worry amidst the pandemic was, and what we found was a surprise. It turns out that the majority of parents are worried about their families being infected by the virus rather than finding work or paying the mortga…
Why do you think they all had jobs, or their jobs weren't at risk? All it says, afaik, is they asked 1000 parents.
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#16The survey does say just enough about their methods to make it sound like it's not at all something that can be taken all that seriously. "In a recent survey, we asked about 1,000 parents what their biggest worry amidst the pandemic was, and what we found was a surprise. It turns out that the majority of parents are worried about their families being infected by the virus rather than finding work or paying the mortga…
Why do you think they all had jobs, or their jobs weren't at risk? All it says, afaik, is they asked 1000 parents.
Seems to me that would of been an important data point they could of gathered during the survey.
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#17The article didn’t share the survey method and the sample size is 1000. I couldn’t take it seriously
Most election polls (in the UK at least) aren't much bigger and can be very very accurate.
Usual caveats apply obviously.
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#18The public perceptions are wildly off on almost every metric about covid, so this isn't surprising. Most polls on infection rates, total infections, total deaths etc seem to indicate the public thinks covid is many times worse than it actually is.
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#19Yeah this is definitely not surprising to the least! Even if I was laid off I am more worried about my children having long term health effects (or worse) than missing a few bills, and that is before considering how flexible lenders are claiming to be (I've gotten emails from all my major bills about covid related help they can provide).
I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid. Yes they have less effects than adults but some children do go to the hospital and ICU. And also they can easily spread it to the parents/grandparents.
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#20People are, statistically speaking, really bad at figuring out what to worry about. See: terrorist attacks, plane crashes, shark attacks, abduction by strangers. So maybe this is good news about the pandemic.
This is encouraging. People are most worried about the most serious problem.