[rcme]

Chronic stress is one of many, many reasons listed. It's confirmation bias to go into something looking for a particular answer. In the article, the mention of chronic stress is more of a passing remark and isn't discussed other than that one quote. But it sounds like your takeaway is that chronic stress is definitely one of the main contributing factors. The article doesn't support that.

[LesZedCB]

more the inverse. my hypothesis is stress is high in society and there are many unknown effects. this is potentially one of the many effects.

[rcme]

> my hypothesis is stress is high in society and there are many unknown effects.

Exactly. You have a prior hypothesis about stress. This article makes a brief mention of stress and you take it as evidence of your hypothesis even though the article doesn’t support that at all.

[LesZedCB]

here's the paper cited in the article..?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90980-3

my point is, I'm not a scientist, so pointing out a bias (in my case a preconceived speculation) won't change my methodology for a future study. you're just going "nuh uh" with nothing else to say.

I am creating a narrative, and based on the discussion from my comment, it was exactly the narrative I wanted to provide.