• @RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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    209 hours ago

    Itt: cognitive disonannce.

    The study isn’t bs. Lemmy users just won’t accept that they don’t even come close to representing the average individual.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      The study isn’t bs.

      There’s a lot of “I’m childless and proud and how dare you suggest living in isolation and screaming at my computer screen all day has had any negative impact on my mental health. You’re just trying to trick me into breeding! A thing I became intensely averse to just recently, after spending 16 hours a day on incel forums full of reactionary influencers.”

      So much of the knee-jerk ingrained responses online are indicative of people who have utterly lost the ability to think for themselves and are only capable of lashing out in defense of their latest favorite social media trend. Add in the artificial interactions created by bot accounts and people spamming content for self-promotion, and you’ve got a real recipe for mass psychosis.

    • Echo Dot
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      7 hours ago

      Or if we use less adversarial language, this study is far from universal and its findings should be applied with the understanding that not all people will not match those who were in the study. As with most things, far more research is needed to get a thorough understanding.