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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
[...] Traditionally, linguistic analyses in this field have been carried out by researchers reading and taking notes. Nowadays, computerised text analysis methods allow the processing of extremely large data banks in minutes. This can help spot linguistic features which humans may miss, calculating the percentage prevalence of words and classes of words, lexical diversity, average sentence length, grammatical patterns and many other metrics.
[...] More interesting is the use of pronouns. Those with symptoms of depression use significantly more first person singular pronouns – such as “me”, “myself” and “I” – and significantly fewer second and third person pronouns – such as “they”, “them” or “she”. This pattern of pronoun use suggests people with depression are more focused on themselves, and less connected with others. Researchers have reported that pronouns are actually more reliable in identifying depression than negative emotion words.
[...] The style of language relates to how we express ourselves, rather than the content we express. Our lab recently conducted a big data text analysis of 64 different online mental health forums, examining over 6,400 members. “Absolutist words” – which convey absolute magnitudes or probabilities, such as “always”, “nothing” or “completely” – were found to be better markers for mental health forums than either pronouns or negative emotion words.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 02 2019, @09:54AM (2 children)
Maybe that's what the books say, but in practice about 1% of human population rejects the pack and happily lives away from others. Hermits are the ultimate expression of this, monks are a bit more common, but loving being mostly alone is a variant of the norm. Not everyone is a depressed girl who ran away; you have to leave room for submariners, merchant sailors, explorers, astronauts. They are certified as 100% sane; at the same time, they are fine alone or in a small group.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by coolgopher on Wednesday January 02 2019, @10:29AM
I'll add that's its also very easy to be lonely without being alone.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday January 03 2019, @01:43AM
Not always, but there are some places in the world where lots of hermits live, albeit with lots of distance between each of them.
Consider Feral Cats: they are _highly_ territorial but they too live in Colonies.
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