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One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
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Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Notably from the graphic, not having school early in lockdown was great! Lower suicides. Once Hybrid/Remote started, suicides worse, implying worse than baseline. But slightly within error bars for most. So order of good > bad: No School > In-Person school > Hybrid
I don't have kids or anything more than an academic interest, but from what I gathered, "hybrid/remote" involved the most brain-dead approach to learning environments possible. It seems/seemed like they just looked at the most popular videoconferencing options and used them as designed. From what I read, that did not provide a very good classroom simulation, and classroom simulations was the only option sought.
It was awful for our kids in middle / high school. 6 hours a day of zoom meetings with cameras required to be on at all times was exactly as bad in every way as you can imagine.
Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#123Wow I can't imagine that. For me COVID was the worst time in my life. And it still is until we are fully back to normal.
But I am very prone to depression and living alone in a foreign country didn't help..
Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#124So 1 in 3 felt happier, 1 in 3 felt more depressed, and the remaining 1 in 3 felt no major change. Sounds pretty much like a normal (gaussian) distribution, or basically a non-story. Guessing if they measured satisfaction on a scale, the majority were clustered near the "no major change" camp, as with any gaussian curve. As we already know, it turns out humans can adapt to things. By phrasing the headline result as "…
"or basically a non-story." - that it's a 'Gaussian distribution' does not mean it's a 'non story'.a
Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#125I can imagine lockdown being very pleasant for people who own their own home, live alone (or with close family of their choice) and can work remotely without any issues.
Too bad the government that locked us up doesn't care whether or not everyone has those things.
Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's maybe because you don't have experience with past groups of freshers to compare modern ones to...
Been involved with universities since 2003.
And yet you've managed not to see any change any outgoingness, loneliness, time spent on screen, etc., in students and teenagers, despite those being registered in all kinds of studies and polls? Heck, even the sex has been going down...
[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/teens-spend-hours-screens-entertai...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/02/nearly-four-...
[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/01/6065885...
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/campus-life-why-are-student...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/20/lonelin...
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/13/young-a...
[5] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Now, even though 2003 is already after the start cutoff date (a first major development being the web's post-1994 huge adoption), the contrast between it and say 2013 (in between which dates smartphones and social media were widely available) would already releal huge changes in those aspects.
Except if the changes became invisible even to someone in contact with students in a kind of "boiling the frog" incremental familiarity (where it had been slowly but steadily increasing each year, but the infra-year difference didn't seem important).
Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#127Looking back, lockdowns sucked in the moment. But when I look at it in aggregate, my life improved dramatically. A big part of that was prior to the pandemic I would hit the clubs and bars every weekend. With bars and clubs closed I was forced to do other things, like go outside to nature. After a while the clubs re-opened but I realized I was no longer drawn to go to. My life on the weekends started to revolve aroun…
I was just talking about this yesterday, I got burned by what would have been pre-pandemic, a normal night out. I imagine there are a lot of people who lost that casual tolerance and aren't really willing to rebuilt it
Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't have kids or anything more than an academic interest, but from what I gathered, "hybrid/remote" involved the most brain-dead approach to learning environments possible. It seems/seemed like they just looked at the most popular videoconferencing options and used them as designed. From what I read, that did not provide a very good classroom simulation, and classroom simulations was the only option sought.
It was awful for our kids in middle / high school. 6 hours a day of zoom meetings with cameras required to be on at all times was exactly as bad in every way as you can imagine.
I have been really surprised that there hasn't been any apparent innovation in educational technologies and classroom concepts.
Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Get out of your parent's house. It is a daily reminder that you're not facing life as an adult. This is complete bullshit. The US is a major outlier with the societal pressure to move out for no reason. It makes for poor family connections, wasted money, and wasted resources in general.
> no reason This is a big unsubstantiated implication you're making here. I fully agree that there is too much of a stigma against living with your family (though it has improved greatly over the past 10-15 years as surveys and studies have shown) in the US, but there are plenty of reasons to move out. This is coming from someone, by the way, who was convinced he'd probably stay living at home until 30 or so. I event…
It sounds like you just had relationship issues with your family and “solved them” by moving out. Just because you got mad there were house rules doesn’t mean house rules hold everyone back.
Billions of adults get by fine otherwise around the globe without moving out until they have children and even then moving out isn’t a given. It frequently just changes to the child owning a house and having the parents live in.
> But the individualist nature of
Pushing for strong families does not imply an emphasis on collectivism at the government levels.
Re: One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
When kids can’t socialize normally with their peers that is negative for them, even if kids themselves might be happy with “homeschooling” and socializing with their friends in Minecraft. We have been spared most lockdown measures, but had a couple of weeks with closed schools and day care. It was fine, but my kids were absolutely better of once schools and day care opened again.
By the time kids are old enough that suicide starts to become a serious risk (6th grade and up, mostly) I'd need to see some serious data to convince me that socializing at school isn't net-harmful. In fact I'm surprised rates might have dropped, because kids were still able to socialize over the Internet. But, possibly, that gave them more ability to avoid the worst of it, and that was enough to make a difference. I…
It's really, really hard for kids to avoid a handful of super-toxic students in their class,
Avoiding everyone is not the best solution to that. It's a part of growing up to be able to deal with people of all ilks. Living in a bubble is not healthy.
I have plenty of anecdotal evidence of suicides and depression in lockdown.
Numbers like x% better are meaningless without a base rate and this article is guilty of presenting numbers in that way. It's dangerous talk, so the author should be more responsible IMHO, or it indicative of the author not caring. Higher or lower against the base rate, this article will likely be quoted incorrectly and foster myths.