Twitter is Showing That People Are Anxious and Depressed - The New York Times - 1 views
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the lab offers this answer: Sunday, May 31. That day was not only the saddest day of 2020 so far, it was also the saddest day recorded by the lab in the last 13 years. Or at least, the saddest day on Twitter.
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adonahue011 on 02 Nov 20The lab is offering the idea that May 31st was the saddest day of 2020, and the saddest in the last 13 years. The toll 2020 has put on all of us mentally is probably something at times we cannot even recognize.
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adonahue011 on 02 Nov 20The lab is offering the idea that May 31st was the saddest day of 2020, and the saddest in the last 13 years. The toll 2020 has put on all of us mentally is probably something at times we cannot even recognize.
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measuring word choices across millions of tweets, every day, the world over, to come up with a moving measure of well-being.
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“We don’t have a lot of great data about how people are doing.”
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Twitter included “terrorist,” “violence” and “racist.” This was about a week after George Floyd was killed, near the start of the protests that would last all summe
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the pandemic, the Hedonometer’s sadness readings have set multiple records. This year, “there was a full month — and we never see this — there was a full month of days that the Hedonometer was reading sadder than the Boston Marathon day,”
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“These digital traces are markers that we’re not aware of, but they leave marks that tell us the degree to which you are avoiding things, the degree to which you are connected to people,”
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one of the challenges of this line of research is that language itself is always evolving — and algorithms are notoriously bad at discerning context.
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they were able to help predict which ones might develop postpartum depression, based on their posts before the birth of their babies.
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psychology research is often exclusively composed of subjects who are Western, Educated, and from Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic countries.
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but also anxiety, depression, stress and suicidal thoughts. Unsurprisingly, she found that all these levels were significantly higher than during the same months of 2019.
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argues that in the rush to embrace data, many researchers ignore the distorting effects of the platforms themselves.
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emotionally invested in the content we are presented with, coaxed toward remaining in a certain mental state.
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The closest we get to looking at national mental health otherwise is through surveys like the one Gallup performs
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the lowest rates of life satisfaction this year in over a decade, including during the 2008 recession
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I have never been more exhausted at the end of the day than I am now,” said Michael Garfinkle, a psychoanalyst in New York.
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There are so many contenders to consider: was it Thursday, March 12, the day after Tom Hanks announced he was sick and the N.B.A. announced it was canceled? Was it Monday, June 1, the day peaceful protesters were tear gassed so that President Trump could comfortably stroll to his Bible-wielding photo op?