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Young people five times more likely to have no friends than a decade ago | IPPR (www.ippr.org)
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The full report, 'The loneliest generation: What it is like to grow up in England today', is worth reading, too. Happy new academic year, I guess?

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago

5% up from 1%.

The confidence intervals on these percentages are, unsurprisingly, pretty broad, so describing this as a five-fold increase is dodgy. You can see more on p11 of the full report where the earlier figure could have been as much as 1.6% and the later figure as little as 3.5%, which would be a little over a two-fold increase. That increase is what we can be confident of.

The trend is not in doubt and is concerning, but let's not reproduce shitty statistics.

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