The Daily Chart: Ideology and Anxiety

Do you suppose there just might be a relationship between student ideology and the increase in anxiety or mental illness among young people? Eric Kaufman has done it again, with a report just out from the new Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham in the UK on how the mental health crisis does not explain wokery. I recommend looking at the whole thing, but one finding in particular jumps out:

The fine print on the x-axis is difficult to read, so here is the total contrast in prose form:

71 percent of the 120 students who are female, very liberal, not heterosexual, of lower socioeconomic class, with Grade-Point Averages below 3 (the 30th percentile) and no religious affiliation report chronic anxiety, whereas only 17 percent of male heterosexuals who have good grades, are conservative, and Christian, report high anxiety.

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