Week Seven: Visual Statistic

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Statistics show that anxiety is the most-experienced mental health
disorder in people worldwide. This high frequency can suggest
that the deja vu phenomenon also occurs in large populations,
as a study found connections between clinical anxiety and an increase
in false-memory events.

    Showing how common is it for anxiety to be experienced by people worldwide is important to my research due to the ties between anxiety and deja vu experiences, which were uncovered in my case study. Since anxiety was the most-experienced disorder worldwide in 2017, one can suggest that the frequency of the deja vu phenomenon is positively correlated to this high number of people. This data can allow for my paper to have a relevancy factor, since false recollections impact many people worldwide, especially those with increasing anxiety levels. By proving that anxiety is the most commonly-experienced mental disorder in the world, I can heighten the importance of my research by displaying the strong links between increased anxiety and increased deja vu occurrences.

    This data was found on the Statista database, which has proved to be very useful in my own research. The citation and link to the presentation this statistic was found in is as follows:

OWID. "Number of People Globally That Suffered from Select Mental Health or Substance Use

    Disorders as of 2017 (in Millions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 Aug 2019, https://www-statista-

    com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/statistics/979869/number-of-people-with-mental-health-

    disorders-globally/.

https://www-statista-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/study/61559/anxiety-in-the-us/.




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