Dec. 1st, 2008

rhythmaning: (violin)
Euan Semple got tagged for a meme on Mindapples.org:

  • Write a post telling your readers five things you do that help keep you mentally well (and answer any of the other survey questions too if you like)
  • Link to the Mindapples site www.mindapples.org


I found it quite hard to come up with my list: there are things I like to do a lot, but I don't know if those are what keep me mentally well.

But this is what I came up with:
  • try new things when I can
  • listen to music
  • go walking
  • think about the people I love
  • read... cook... eat... drink wine...

See, I told you I found it hard!
rhythmaning: (violin)
Euan Semple got tagged for a meme on Mindapples.org:

  • Write a post telling your readers five things you do that help keep you mentally well (and answer any of the other survey questions too if you like)
  • Link to the Mindapples site www.mindapples.org


I found it quite hard to come up with my list: there are things I like to do a lot, but I don't know if those are what keep me mentally well.

But this is what I came up with:
  • try new things when I can
  • listen to music
  • go walking
  • think about the people I love
  • read... cook... eat... drink wine...

See, I told you I found it hard!
rhythmaning: (Armed Forces)
BBC radio has been running a news story all afternoon - Life in UK 'has become lonelier'.

The city I live in, Edinburgh, is apparently the loneliest place in the UK.

Except… The survey didn’t measure “loneliness”. The tab marked “Isolation Map” details what they did measure:
  1. Non-married adults multiplied by a weight of 0.18
  2. One-person households multiplied by a weight 0.50
  3. People who have moved to their current address within the last year multiplied by 0.38
  4. People renting privately multiplied by 0.80


So unmarried people living by themselves living in rented accommodation are more isolated and lonely. And they measured it by looking at census data – they didn’t interview people at all.

I disagree with these findings. There may be a connection: but I bet that those living in rural Scotland can feel isolated.

Clearly spurious findings – which is a shame, because they may have been looking at – or for –some interesting things.
rhythmaning: (Armed Forces)
BBC radio has been running a news story all afternoon - Life in UK 'has become lonelier'.

The city I live in, Edinburgh, is apparently the loneliest place in the UK.

Except… The survey didn’t measure “loneliness”. The tab marked “Isolation Map” details what they did measure:
  1. Non-married adults multiplied by a weight of 0.18
  2. One-person households multiplied by a weight 0.50
  3. People who have moved to their current address within the last year multiplied by 0.38
  4. People renting privately multiplied by 0.80


So unmarried people living by themselves living in rented accommodation are more isolated and lonely. And they measured it by looking at census data – they didn’t interview people at all.

I disagree with these findings. There may be a connection: but I bet that those living in rural Scotland can feel isolated.

Clearly spurious findings – which is a shame, because they may have been looking at – or for –some interesting things.

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