Abigail Shrier

Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute · 1 appearance on the record.

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She is the author of Irreversible Damage and Bad Therapy. Her reporting and commentary examine modern parenting, adolescent mental health culture, and gender identity, appearing in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and The Free Press.

30statements → 13claims → 13claims resolved → 69%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 3.63/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

9 supported 0 partly supported 4 contradicted how the 13 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

13 assertions · 10 opinions · 7 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 13 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 13 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Abigail argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Research Disproves the Claim That Yelling Causes Children Lifelong Trauma
“This is their idea that anything we do to get, anytime you yell at a kid that can traumatize a kid, that injury, emotional injury can be with them for a lifetime. It's not true. It's not what the best research has shown”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 11:18 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Controlled Studies Show Grieving People Suffer Worse Outcomes From Therapy
“There's a whole body of research that shows, you know, people who've gone through natural bereavement, the loss of a loved one, often feel worse after therapy. They did these controlled studies with You know, a control group who didn't, who lost a loved one, b…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 31:17 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright

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Everything Abigail Shrier said on the Knowledge Project that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Research Shows That Making Happiness a Goal Causes Unhappiness
“The researchers can tell you, and there's a lot of good research on this, making happiness your goal is a way to make you unhappy.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 8:57 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
Insight
Children Need Adult Authority, Not Universal Emotional Affirmation
“So the last thing we want to do is what we've been doing is affirm every one of their emotions, no matter how Extreme or dysregulated and then talk to them as if we're all just, you know, feelers here. We're all just emotional feelers trying to understand each…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 15:25 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
Insight
Holding Children to Strict Academic Expectations Conveys Belief in Their Capacity
“Holding kids to high standards, high expectations gives them a sense. It honors them with the sense that they have capacity. They have capability. Obviously, if you disappoint, if you, if you're giving a kid a zero, what you're saying is you could have done th…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 44:50 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
Assertion Supported
Replicated Studies Show Authoritative Parenting Yields the Best Child Outcomes
“And this study has been replicated hundreds of times. Authoritative parenting produces the best kids in terms of success, emotional well-being, and even close, eventual closeness with mom and dad, and, or parents, whoever the parents may be.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 16:49 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
Assertion Supported
Modern Parents Spend Significantly More Time With Kids Than Past Generations
“Parents are pouring in way more time to their kids than the previous generations.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 22:04 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
Assertion Supported
CDC Finds One in Six Young American Children Have Mental Diagnoses
“In 2016, the CDC came out with a report that one in six American children between the ages of two and eight had a mental health or behavioral diagnosis.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 49:03 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright May 21, 2024 53m
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