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"Fact-Check Scarcity Principle: This article is called 100 Little Ideas but there are fewer than 100 ideas. 99% of readers won’t notice because they’re not checking, and most of those who notice won’t say anything. Don’t believe everything you read."

I was thinking to myself "this is an amazing list" until I came across that cheeky snippet. Now I'm confused; is the point to make readers critically evaluate each of the listed theories?

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Well, in fact the first one "Depressive Realism" is a common (false) myth. Depressed people tend to have distorted thoughts about reality with a strong negative bias.

A typical distorted though is over-generalization. For instance: if a depressed person fails to pass an exam, he may think that he will never be able to pass that exam and his life is a complete failure because of that. Of course that though is NOT the reality. The reality is that he probably need prepare better for that exam, but that does not mean that his life is a complete failure.

If someone is interested in this topic I recommend the book "Feeling good" by David Burns.

>99% of readers won’t notice

Let's not forget the (classic by now) The Simpsons:

>Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that

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