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Life in the city can be taxing. City dwellers often face higher rates of crime, pollution, social isolation and other environmental stressors than those living in rural areas. For years studies have consistently linked the risk of developing schizophrenia to urban environments—but researchers are only beginning to understand why this association exists. Addressing the link is increasingly urgent: According to a recent U.N. report, the proportion of people living in cities will rise from 54 percent of the world’s population in 2014 to 66 percent by 2050.
Researchers first suggested in the 1930s that urban living might increase schizophrenia risk. Since then many large epidemiological studies have reported an association between the two, primarily in European countries such as Sweden and Denmark. Converging evidence has revealed that growing up in the city doubles the risk of developing psychosis later in life. Studies have also begun to find that urban environments may heighten the risk of other mental health issues such as depression and anxiety.
Not exactly news, this has been covered for quite some time. Given that liberalism is mostly isolated in a few large, densely populated urban areas, it does support the theory that liberalism actually is a mental disease.
Not exactly news, this has been covered for quite some time. Given that liberalism is mostly isolated in a few large, densely populated urban areas, it does support the theory that liberalism actually is a mental disease.
It's in Scientific American, so it must be true.
You should probably add this, too:
"The authors see genetics as a stronger explanation than urban living for explaining the occurrence of mental illness. “The key issue we're trying to address here is selection, who ends up living in deprived neighborhoods and why,” says Amir Sariaslan, a postdoctoral researcher in psychiatry at the University of Oxford. “You can't assume without testing for this, that [environmental effects] are causal.”
He believes prior studies may have overstated the importance of city-related environmental influence on schizophrenia. “I have not seen a single study that has adequately addressed familial confounding in the association between urban living and similar sort of exposures and later adverse outcomes,” Sariaslan says. Many epidemiological studies assess familial risk by accounting for family history, but another study conducted by Sariaslan and his colleagues (published 2015 in Schizophrenia Bulletin) found that this had a much smaller effect than cousin and sibling comparisons."
Choosing only the part that shores up your argument is known as "cherry picking" in the academic world.
It is frowned upon.
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Not exactly news, this has been covered for quite some time. Given that liberalism is mostly isolated in a few large, densely populated urban areas, it does support the theory that liberalism actually is a mental disease.
It's in Scientific American, so it must be true.
No, it does not.
Not only have you cherry-picked, as RedZin so accurately pointed out, as the article doesn't even address politics, I believe that she was actually being a bit too kind. You haven't just cherry-picked, you have woven the tree out of whole cloth.
Also, you clearly have no concept whatsoever of the difference between correlation and causation. Leave the "scholarly" stuff alone. It's dangerous.
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