In the article, “The Effects of Low Pay and Unemployment on well being: a logistic regression approach,” the author explores the correlation between unemployment and mental distress. Through his data, he finds that people who are unemployed have a greater chance of developing depression, anxiety, and low self esteem. He explains that even a low paying job can increase someone’s general happiness. The author took his data from almost 8000 different individuals between 16 and 91 through a survey with 6 different questions regarding how the individual was feeling about life. The author then correlated the results with unemployment using a logistic regression approach. However, I was confused as to how he determined how many of the individuals from the data were unemployed. I found this part of the article unclear. Anyhow, after trusting his results, he found that unemployed individuals have a higher chance of having psychological issues. In my opinion, his argument was not incredibly persuading. I thought it was pretty intuitive that unemployment is correlated with low self esteem, but it was not his data or argument that persuaded me. I found the article quite interesting, but did not change my stance on the subject in any way.<\/p>\n

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In the article, “The Effects of Low Pay and Unemployment on well being: a logistic regression approach,” the author explores the correlation between unemployment and mental distress. Through his data, he finds that people who are unemployed have a greater chance of developing depression, anxiety, and low self esteem. He explains that even a low … <\/p>\n

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