The correlation comes from looking at the college degrees of those in the study. Those with artistic degrees—such as acting, creative writing, performing arts, etc—had a 90% higher chance than their regular-folk counterparts of being hospitalized with schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder.
It’s a slippery slope to turning this study into an “x causes y” scenario, but we at Big Think have talked before about the dangers of conflating correlation with causation. Although the numbers don’t lie in this study, this shouldn’t put you off going to college for an art degree, or from going to art school. And speaking from experience, art school kids throw way more interesting parties.
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