General Article Misquoted and misunderstood: have ‘one in four’ people really had a mental health problem?

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What do a government department, a charity, a Royal College and a journal paper all have in common?

 

By Joseph O’Leary

 

They’ve all quoted the same, widely used statistic: one in four people have experienced a mental health problem. And they’ve all sourced the figure to the same place: the 2007...

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