X-Message-Number: 3759 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 23:26:44 -0500 From: "Keith F. Lynch" <> Subject: Re: Depression > Experimental studies ... show that depressed people are more accurate > in estimating the degree to which their actions control the outcomes > in the experiment. That is, "normals" are significantly over > optimistic in relation to the true probabilities of control. I've read that that experiment has been debunked. It depended on very contrived and un-life-like situations. > A non-experimental study found that many people are happy with their > lives. It also found that a minority of persons had a realistic view > of their lives. However, the people who were both happy and had a > realistic view amounted to only about 5 % of the total (this is from > memory). If the study said anything remotely like that, it's obviously bogus, unless almost everyone I know just happens to be in that 5%. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3759