Monday, September 12, 2011

Europeans are going nuts. Really.

The next time you get a lecture from some liberal who thinks that the highest aspiration of America is to be Sweden (you may replace the name of Sweden with any other European country they might happen to mention), just point them to this study, showing that, in fact, the whole place is going crazy.
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  1. Singring5:20 AM

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  3. Singring5:27 AM

    The study states that the 10% increase it found in mental disorders (from about 25% to 35%) was entirely due to them adding fourteen new conditions in the 0-18 year age bracket and among the elderly previously not included.

    I quote:

    'Compared to 2005 (27.4%) this higher estimate is entirely due to the inclusion of 14 new disorders also covering childhood/adolescence as well as the elderly.'


    But what are numbers in the US like?

    Well, according to this

    http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/07232002Hearing671/RegierAttachment.pdf

    House report abstract, among 17-54 year olds, its somewhere between 17 and 32% and that's without the 14 bonus disorders included in the new European study.

    Two minutes (literally) research on the internet would have showed you this, Martin.

    So where's your post on America going crazy?

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