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I chose this graphic because I found it relatable but also an interesting presentation of stress levels. The coronavirus pandemic has certainly been a source of stress for a great deal of people of the last year and with its impact on the human life, the economy, schooling, and nearly every other aspect of normal life, it is important to take its impact on mental health into consideration. Knowing this, I am inclined to believe the information that is being presented in this graphic. I am reminded of a statistics class I took in high school where we talked about how different graphs can actually be misleading when they are not presented in very clear cut and minimally artistic ways. In the case of this graphic, it makes sense to use the people symbols to represent the data as we are talking about stress impacts on American people. But, it is not completely clear where this data was collected. If you were to scroll all the way down to the page where the APA reports this data, they have multiple PDFs about their studies. The American Psychological Association is certainly a trustworthy source, but they are not super forthcoming about the methods in which they collected this data. If it were convenience sampling, say in one particular region, the results may be skewed and not applicable to the whole American population. I trust the APA and read about how they got their information based on what I read, but applying a critical lens to statistical reports is really important.<\/p>\n

I was also reminded of this during Dr. Bezio’s podcast. If we are not critical and engaged with the information we consume, we may very well misinterpret what we are hearing. And this is especially true for our generation where we are exposed to such massive amounts of information every day on the internet that it is really challenging to look into sources and check the reliability of everything we read. We have been somewhat conditioned to assume that the sources we read, especially those that adhere to our personal opinions, are factual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I chose this graphic because I found it relatable but also an interesting presentation of stress levels. The coronavirus pandemic has certainly been a source of stress for a great deal of people of the last year and with its impact on the human life, the economy, schooling, and nearly every other aspect of normal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6682,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}