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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

30 days

We have long been moving into a world of increased convenience and pleasure, at the cost of strong and local tight-knit communities — which has led to profound isolation and loneliness. In this essay, I argue that we must find ways to provide children with vibrant

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Zach Rausch

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1 year

The teen mental illness crisis is not just concentrated in the United States. I explain how and why it hits Gen Z girls across the Anglosphere around the same time and in the same way. My first of three posts w/ @JonHaidt , Part 1: The Anglosphere.

The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International: The Anglosphere

Why did mental health fall off a cliff at the same time and in the same way in the USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Part 1 of 3.

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@Scientific_Bird Four things here: 1. These trends are not split up by sex. Our argument is sex-specific. 2. the WHO GHE (Which is the dataset being used here) underestimates known rates of suicide. So, even the U.S. data after 2010 is not correct here. (and it is the case for many nations

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

Nordic teens are struggling very much like Anglo teens. I have looked at 10 countries, and they all show the same pattern: Teenage girls are struggling more than all other age groups and much more than they were a decade ago. @JonHaidt & @ToMpy1337

The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International, Part 2: The Nordic Nations

For Teens, Scandinavia is No Longer The Happiest Place On Earth.

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

20 days

A fascinating perspective by @DKThomp A mystery that I have also been working to make sense of. In addition to Thompson's views, I argue that teens from Anglo nations (which are generally highly individualistic and secular) tend to have weaker in-person social ties and

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

20 days

@JonHaidt @DKThomp Also, one way I think about the variation is by Imagining two different kids: One is born in a low-income area of India, has six siblings, has to walk to school every day, is relied upon in the home, has a mobile phone with spotty access, and their family is deeply religious.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 month

It's time to reclaim life in the real world. Join @freyaindiaa and the FreeTheAnxiousGeneration team for the Phone Free Summer challenge. One day a week, starting June 14. @JonHaidt Video features the great @FreeRangeKids Learn More:

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@EricLevitz An important part of the story, I believe, is we need to go back further. I have data from Australia, which shows the same trends. But as you can see, it's not reverting to an older mean-- the 80s were particularly bad, for different reasons than they are now.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

8 months

Why are youth self-harm rates declining in Denmark, while self-reported rates of depression and anxiety on the rise? I discuss in my updated post on Nordic youth mental health. @novonordiskfond @JonHaidt

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@Luke_OBrien @JonHaidt @NickHanauer Hey Luke, are you still having this issue? There shouldn't be a paywall up anymore. If there is, will make sure this gets fixed asap.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

Along the way, we have learned that the mental health of liberal girls fell first and fastest in the early 2010s. Our article on the reverse CBT hypothesis. @JonHaidt

Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest

Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

5 months

Some argue that the adolescent mental health crisis is not international. In this post, @JonHaidt @ToMpy1337 and I show that European girls are doing worse than they were a decade ago—especially those from the least religious & most individualistic nations

The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International Part 4: Europe

Why girls from wealthy, secular, and individualistic nations were hit hardest.

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

4 months

The phone-based chilhood is making kids sick and needs to end now. Social media companies ensare teens into a social trap that they cannot get out of. It's time to change course. The Anxious Generation in one article. @JonHaidt

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

www.theatlantic.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@MichaelDPlant see our argument about why we think a number of countries in eastern europe are showing different trends:

The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International Part 4: Europe

Why girls from wealthy, secular, and individualistic nations were hit hardest.

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

19 days

@JonHaidt @CJFerguson1111 @PeteEtchells @cjsewall9 I also want to push back on the self-harm claim. It seems like we are using a single study of New Jersey Hospitals to speculate that most of the rise is self-harm among girls in the United States or, even, in other countries has nothing to do with actual increases? There is so

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@Scientific_Bird Here is the WHO GHE (U.S. data) compared to the CDC, and then one other dataset that also estimates rates poorly.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

“Those who seek to suppress disinformation may be destined, themselves, to sow it.” @zeynep

Opinion | The Government Must Say What It Knows About Covid’s Origins (Published 2023)

Transparency is how to fight misinformation.

www.nytimes.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@JonHaidt @voxdotcom @EricLevitz @JonHaidt To add to this, there are a few key things missed from the article: 1. The WHO GHE suicide estimates have been *underestimating* known rates of adolescent suicide across many nations *since 2010.* This is because they are estimating based on previous years. When we

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

7 months

@eyeslasho Is this data showing generations at the same age (as in Gen x when they were young). Or Gen x right now?

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

It is time for schools to go phone-free. Smartphones undermine attention, learning, and relationships. It's like we give each child a portable soda dispenser 24 hrs/day, 7 days/wk. Let's give them 7 hrs of healthy childhood back. @JonHaidt

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

5 months

@JonHaidt And it's not only self-reported rises in poor mental health. Gen Z girls in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have higher rates of suicide than any prior generation of girls at that age for which we have data for. @JonHaidt

Suicide rates are up for Gen Z across the Anglosphere, especially for girls

It’s not just anxiety, depression, and self-harm.

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@cjsewall9 @JonHaidt We can see the specific changes in rates for ED visits by year here. The hospitalization data does not allow us to see what exactly happened between 2009-2012. But the ED vists do let us see into that.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@MaxCRoser @jmhorp Here is my figure showing these trends: And you can check my work:

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

Guest post from one of my favorite psychologists, Jean Twenge, who is never afraid to dive head-first into a debate. @jean_twenge @JonHaidt Why Academic Pressure Cannot Explain the Mental Illness Crisis

Academic Pressure Cannot Explain the Mental Illness Epidemic

It’s not the homework. It’s the phones.

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@cjsewall9 @JonHaidt Oh yes. I actually cite this in the article. The pediatrics article is covering all kids ages 3-17. But we can get some parsing of the trends by age/sex. In 2009, there was an estimated 82,887 girls (ages 3-17) hospitalized for mental health conditions. By 2019, it is 123,342.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@StefanFSchubert @JonHaidt @SteveStuWill Yes, we plan to address suicide rates in an upcoming post. Suicide rates do differ across nations. We will address our explanations for this soon.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@timmyhotboots @JonHaidt Hey Timmy, I'll be discussing non-Anglo countries in a future post, but check out our page: This has a selection of google docs that collect studies on this topic across the globe

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

8 months

Factories in the early 20th century faced a collective action problem, risking safety for competitive advantage. Today, social media companies face a similar dilemma. @JonHaidt @HumaneTech_ & I propose solutions the collective action traps we face today

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

2 months

@JonHaidt "We replicate the decrease in wellbeing by age across 34 countries..."

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

26 days

Collective action at work. Jewish day schools around the country are taking the lead, bringing their communities together, to set new and better norms around tech use at schools and in their communities.

Yavneh Launches ‘Healthy Tech’ Initiative - The Jewish Link

In his introductory letter to the Yavneh family about the Healthy Tech initiative, Head of School Rabbi Jonathan Knapp opened with the current research and noteworthy scholarship on strategies to...

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@KarlPettersso10 @GunnarBj @KarlPettersso10 @GunnarBj I'm actually working on a piece for Scandinavia next. Here's the google doc I'm working off of. I'd be thrilled if you want to take a look and add anything you think I am missing:

Nordic adolescent mood disorders since 2010: A collaborative review

Nordic adolescent mood disorders since 2010: A collaborative review An ongoing open-source literature review posted and curated by Jonathan Haidt (NYU-Stern), Zach Rausch (NYU-Stern), and Thomas...

docs.google.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@post_liberal @JonHaidt Yes! There are discrepancies in Denmark between reports of anxiety and depression and self-harm rates (the self-harm study you cite goes up to 2016, so I do not know what has happened since). I address this in the post. Let me know if you have thoughts about the discrepancy!

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@cwarny But to nuance this: not all of us have adapted well to a world of ubiquitous sugar (or other mass changes in our food industry)... I also think there are meaningful distinction to be made between kids and adults.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

An important part of the story, I believe, is we need to go back further. I have data from Australia, which shows the same trends. But as you can see, it's not reverting to an older mean-- the 80s were particularly bad--for different reasons than they are now. @EricLevitz

Eric Levitz

@EricLevitz

1 year

One theory that might explain *part* of the teen mental health crisis is that we're reverting to the long-run mean, after a period of exceptionally low levels of adolescent mental distress (tho the suicide rate among girls specifically is at all time-high)

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

10 months

@cwarny @balajis I agree that it would be better to keep it voluntary, but I think you underestimate broad compliance when people face what is perceived as existential threats. @cwarny

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@cjsewall9 @JonHaidt You are absolutely right. This is something that I want to improve on, and will try to think of ways to best do this in the future, with the skillsets I currently have (and what I hope to develop). Thanks for this feedback!

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@JayMan471 @Scientific_Bird It’s true that it is the most objective measure but that does not mean that other measures should be discounted. If we dismiss other measures because they are imprecise we miss an enormous amount of information about sub-populations. Self harm, like suicide, is also a

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

2 months

I don't always agree with Musa on this topic, but he offers a lot of important nuance in this article. @Musa_alGharbi

Behind the Ivy Intifada

At Columbia, we can most readily perceive the jarring dissonance between the spectacle of unrest over Gaza and the realities of the conflict that has been overshadowed by the spectacle.

www.compactmag.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@LeslieBienen @jean_twenge @sarahehillphd @JonHaidt Oh, this is excellent. Thanks, I'll keep my eye on this one

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

Incredible work being done by @RichardvReeves

Some news I can't wait to share

Why I'm founding the American Institute for Boys and Men

ofboysandmen.substack.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@cjsewall9 @JonHaidt @StuartJRitchie @SelterMosby @whitehatterteam Excellent, thanks Craig! I will gather these critiques together

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@rubenarslan If I understand you correctly, actually the opposite:

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@Brunobhjf @JonHaidt Wow, really interesting. We would love your help finding studies and research from South America. I have had difficulty with this, and it would be of enormous help. If you request comment access, you could add in your thoughts / comments in the doc. Great to connect w/ you

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@Brunobhjf @JonHaidt Hey Bruno, this is something I am looking into—but only have scratched the surface. Check out our Google Doc on this:

The Coddling of the Latin American Mind? A Review of the Evidence

The Coddling of the Latin American Mind? An ongoing open-source literature review posted and curated by Jonathan Haidt (NYU-Stern) and Zach Rausch. The Questions: Are the trends documented in The...

docs.google.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@sergiotpinto @paulnovosad @mikekofoed I really appreciate you reading through the post. I have looked at England and Australia (just for suicide rates) which shows similar underestimates:

GBD Post Supplement

The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International Unless You Rely on a Flawed International Dataset: Supplement Researchers Need To Stop Using The Global Burden of Disease Study By Zach Rausch I took a...

docs.google.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

29 days

@FreeRangeKids Thanks @FreeRangeKids <3

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

18 days

"In January 2018, Mr. Zuckerberg received a report estimating that four million children under the age of 13 were on Instagram, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by 33 states."

How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety, States Say

The C.E.O. and his team drove Meta’s efforts to capture young users and misled the public about the risks, lawsuits by state attorneys general say.

www.nytimes.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@post_liberal Thanks for this study! I had not come across this. Very interesting and important. Will read this

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

5 months

@JonHaidt And here are 13 other possible explanations for the youth mental health crisis — and why they don't work. From @jean_twenge

Here are 13 Other Explanations For The Adolescent Mental Health Crisis. None of Them Work.

Only smartphones plus social media can explain the international collapse in the early 2010s.

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@EricLevitz @JonHaidt @EricLevitz Hey Eric, Overall, I really appreciated this essay. But I want to note that I address many of these arguments around diagnostic changes in this post. I also show major issues with the WHO GHE data is underestimating rates of suicide among teens across many

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@cjsewall9 @JonHaidt The issue is that the CDC does not provide yearly data for the 10-14 year-olds for hospitalizations. The closest I can get for you is 2013 and 2017, which is a rise of 56.8%. I have more data point for ED visits. So from 2012 to 2019 for 10-14, the % increase was 91.3%. Just

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

5 months

@JonHaidt And one of the reason people disagree on the international scope of the problem is that they are relying on a dataset that systematically underestimates rates of youth mental illness in countries that have robust national mental health data.

The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International, Unless You Rely on a Flawed International Dataset

Researchers need to stop using the Global Burden of Disease study when analyzing mental health trends

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@LeslieBienen @jean_twenge @sarahehillphd @JonHaidt This is something I am actually looking into. Check out Jon and I's alternative hypothesis google doc (Hyp 12). Please add content we are missing!

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@MaxCRoser @jmhorp Hi all, I want to first apologize for the confusion in my article. Max is right that I had muddied the waters by combining his graph with my arguments about the GBD. I have made updates to the article that I hope make it is accurate as possible. But I do not understand: 1)

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

"We are wired to believe our senses, especially when they converge. Illusions, historically in the realm of curiosities, may soon become deeply woven into normal life."

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

Society needs skeptics to raise counterarguments against alarm ringers and to point out weaknesses in our evidence. @JonHaidt responds to @StuartJRitchie @SelterMosby Aaron Brown, and @whitehatterteam

Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness

Six propositions for evaluating the evidence.

www.afterbabel.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@sergiotpinto @paulnovosad @mikekofoed Hi Sergio, I am deleting the previous tweet because it was not fully accurate. The trends in the OWID graphs you have above are *not* relying on the GBD. OWID relies on WHO estimates, which rely in part on the GBD (But only for countries without good death registration data).

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@StefanFSchubert @JonHaidt @SteveStuWill Agreed, I wanted to be consistent with my other graphs by including the relative increase. I do not make the case that self-harm rates in Sweden have increased in a way that supports our hypothesis. But the rise during COVID, to me, seems evident.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@cjsewall9 @JonHaidt Just to respond to the first point here. My approach has been to average a few years before 2010. The CDC does not provide rates for the 10-14 year-olds in 2009. So I averaged 2007-08 together, to try to find a relatively stable base rate that can look at pre- and post- 2010.

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@post_liberal I would like to credit you for sharing this study in the Google Doc. If you would like to add your full name, feel free. See 3.4.3

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

3 months

@rubenarslan I actually have the simple mean comparisons. You can see that in this google sheet: I also provide a lot more information in the supplement for the post: I chose to do 3+ because that has been a general standard in published

Supplement for Youth International Mental Health Crisis

Supplement for The Mental Health Crisis is International: Part 4 By Zach Rausch, Jon Haidt, and Thomas Potrenby This is the Supplementary document for our recent Substack post, The Youth Mental...

docs.google.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

1 year

@post_liberal Additionally, there are multiple plausible explanations for declines. I invite you to add your thoughts and comments in the respective google doc I have been curating:

Nordic adolescent mood disorders since 2010: A collaborative review

Nordic adolescent mood disorders since 2010: A collaborative review An ongoing open-source literature review posted and curated by Jonathan Haidt (NYU-Stern), Zach Rausch (NYU-Stern), and Thomas...

docs.google.com

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Zach Rausch

@ZachMRausch

6 months

@DrMikeBrooks @JonHaidt Hey Mike, I wrote a post on this actually, and when you break Candian trends by sex, we do see the effects.

Suicide rates are up for Gen Z across the Anglosphere, especially for girls

It’s not just anxiety, depression, and self-harm.

www.afterbabel.com

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