The Myth Of Ever-Fagile

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In the article, The Myth of ever-more-fragile college student, by Jesse Singal she clarifies the statistics and the rumors of students becoming more “fragile”. She begins the article by outing two stories from Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff that shifted researcher’s idea that this generation of college students demand more health cover because they are “coddled...and always have trigger warnings. Although, many published work is based off the wrong numbers or the wrong facts, such as Physiologies today’s article. Schwartz said that the numbers have decreased since 2000 and Singal states factors that haven’t been taken into consideration such as the surrounding environment of the students. She clarifies that college students are not becoming

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