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Yes, that graph is the same graph I looked at, which shows we are (as of the last data point) at the literal highest spot ever.

Spiking back up from a very good drop in the 90s/2000s.

Edit - to add, three of your 5 items in that list can be correlated pretty well with online activity (social pressure, school shootings, inactivity)




>school shootings

See this is exactly what I'm talking about. 20 years ago the prevailing wisdom was that this was caused by violent video games and explicit music. This is what you sound like to me:

https://youtu.be/d3GTJOZLaPY

>social pressure

I said economic pressure.

>inactivity

Possibly but there's not a strong proven link between phones and anything.


Hmm this chart shows that we aren't at all time highs yet: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm

(Difference is that it's 15-19 instead of 15-24?)




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