{"id":12833,"date":"2022-09-23T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12833"},"modified":"2024-12-12T01:15:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T01:15:38","slug":"media-more-americans-have-student-loan-debt-than-attended-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/09\/23\/media-more-americans-have-student-loan-debt-than-attended-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: More Americans have student loan debt than attended college?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is what happens when journalists cannot do simple math &#8211; literally, this is nonsensical reporting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Of 2,000 U.S. participants polled in a survey conducted by online education program, ELVTR, <strong>63% of Americans are still wrestling with debt from student loans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/09\/21\/americans-mental-health-continue-to-struggle-amid-student-loan-debt.html\">54% of Americans say their mental health issues like anxiety and depression are directly related to student loan debt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real world:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdwallet.com\/article\/loans\/student-loans\/how-many-americans-have-student-loan-debt\">Less than 13%<\/a> of Americans carry student loans.<\/em><\/span> About 40% &#8211; today &#8211; have a college degree. Many students graduate without debts. Thus to estimate that 2\/3ds of Americans have student loan debt is nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guess 4x more Americans are stressed by other people&#8217;s loans? Did the study even ask that question?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporters must never be left alone, in a room, with a number or percentage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original headline in case they memory hole it later:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-51.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-51-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12834\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter completely screws the story. Never, ever leave a reporter or editor in a room, alone, with a number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,26,29,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-in-practice","category-lies","category-media","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}