Comment on ‘A fundamental part of growing up’: Why Aussie kids can’t swim any more
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Love when people make anecdotal claims and extrapolate them to a nation wide crisis. The Herald is such a fear monger.
Comment on ‘A fundamental part of growing up’: Why Aussie kids can’t swim any more
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Love when people make anecdotal claims and extrapolate them to a nation wide crisis. The Herald is such a fear monger.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
They’re taking anecdotal claims and using them to personalise actual statistics.
And that was pre-COVID, before lockdowns meant many children were missing out on learn to swim at key ages. Post-COVID,
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Which is my problem with them, they have actual research and they use a stay at home mums personal experience to try make the situation sound worse than it is.
It’s cheap journalism.
Just present the facts and research and stop reaching for ridiculous headlines designed to draw clicks. Kids can still swim, its less than before but we dont have an entire generation that are incapable of doing so.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Data doesn’t stop people from smoking, being antivax, etc. Stories move people more than data when emotions are involved. So whoever is writing this is just doing what the data say to do, ironically.
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Connecting people with data is fine, but using it to draw conclusions the data doesn’t support - like saying aussie kids cannot swim anymore - is just overselling the issue to get more clicks.
Stick to the facts, give case examples of this happening and don’t use sensationalism.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You mean facts like more than 4 in 5 teenagers don’t meet the basic expected minimum‽ Those stats?
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why are you trying to turn this into an argument, I was happy to have this conversation but you are getting a bit butt hurt man.
Chill out dude.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Sounds like you want an ABS spreadsheet, not a news article.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Those statistics are terrifying. Have you seen how much water we play in, in this country?!
vas@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
@Zagorath, I don’t fully understand this, could you explain? If you think that the article has a poor base, why are you posting the article to Australia@aussie.zone?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I don’t think the article was poor. @Noite_Etion@lemmy.world does, for reasons that seem perplexingly out of touch to me.
vas@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Oh I’ve misunderstood you at first, sorry. 🙈 I think I understand what you meant now.