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That "93% of people are burnt out" stat came from 47 responses on a LinkedIn poll in Ohio
I popped open the original LinkedIn poll behind that viral burnout number everyone keeps reposting, and the source was one guy in Columbus with 47 votes total. The "93%" was literally 44 people who clicked a button on their lunch break, no margin of error, no age breakdown, nothing. Then it got turned into a bar chart graphic and reshared 40,000 times in 3 days. How many other stats floating around right now are just somebody's lunch poll dressed up as research?
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thomasgonzalez16h ago
So some guy's lunch poll goes viral and now the whole thing is fake news? That seems like a stretch. People share stuff like this because it matches how they already feel, not because they think it's a peer reviewed study. The real issue is lazy writers at big sites who grab a number like this without checking, and that's been happening forever. Remember that "we only use 10% of our brains" thing? Total made up, still gets repeated. A dumb LinkedIn poll isn't the problem, the people who repost it as fact are, and that's on them not the guy in Columbus.
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