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Did people read the same article I did. The conclusion was depressive realism is missattributed pessimism, not some sort of objectivity super power.

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I was just about to post the final portion of the conclusion:

In summary, compared to nondepressed indi- viduals, depressives are “nay-sayers”. Depressives may be sadder but they are not wiser; rather, so- called “depressive realism” results from the bias of depressives to say “no”.

Clearly a lot of people just didn't read it at all... and didn't even skim the major portions.

To be fair, it's pretty poor abstract-writing to not hint at the conclusion in the abstract. That's the _job_ of the abstract, to summarize the contents, not to be a 'teaser' where you don't know what you're going to get without reading the whole article!

Agree, and the title too, almost clicbait

Sadly, the reddit/HN hivemind has decided the stoicism is the current hot fad for young male techies and anything that remotely sounds like a positive for it will be trumped up as justification for it. This article is being misrepresented to promote that view.

Lots of generalizations here. You sound bitter about something.

Did you read the highly upvoted thread above saying depression is just in the mind, people who beat it gain "super-powers", and ranting about stoicism and meditation?

There is a hell of a lot of deeply condescending woo here.

> There is a hell of a lot of deeply condescending woo here.

Your comment right here is the only "condescending woo" I've read in this thread.

how could someone speak about a trend without using generalizations?

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