[ggrrhh_ta]

Of course... It has been taught in the most basic courses to design questionnaires since... forever... There is a whole science around that. Not only for mental health. Carefully identifying the best proxies and looking at the internal consistency of multiple answers and/or events/metrics is the intricate part of the design of the questionnaire. A simple/dumb example; you do not ask: "do you constantly read Hacker News?" but "have you heard <name some prevalent news in HN from today> of these news?"

[ta20211004_1]

Did you have a look at the slide deck? I don't design survey's for a living, but the questions seem carefully chosen (often included as a footnote on slides with graphs).

[ggrrhh_ta]

I just did; I was replying to your exact question in the comment. Questions like "Instagram can make me laugh when I am feeling down" do not look like the kind of questions that a good independently designed survey would do; in general, the would tend to be more of the kind that focus on a concrete event and their surroundings - it may look like they loose the perspective, you are looking at the only bad time that person had, but, done across a lot of people, it is more informative (would statistically represent the most likely state for the population, even if it is totally wrong for some individuals).

[ta20211004_1]

@ggrrhh_ta

It's not showing me the 'reply' button on your comment.

That seems like fair criticism. It's not my area of expertise. I'm just here to post the source document because in light of what the study actually claims, the media reaction has been ridiculous.

[colejohnson66]

Tangent: The “reply” link is hidden in some cases (fast replies) to avoid flamewars. If you insist on replying, clicking the date stamp to go the comment’s permalink will show a reply box.

[ta20211004_1]

Thanks for the information!

[ggrrhh_ta]

In fact, thanks for the source document; it is much more interesting than what has surfaced in the media.

- about the reply button, it sometimes happens to me also, maybe a delay or something like that?