So I open up my homepage and MSN has the following tidbit:
“Are 1 in 5 Teens Bipolar?”
“Hmmmm, interesting”, I think as I click.
"Three out of four of my sons are teenagers…
“I’m surprised to hear (and I doubt very much) that 20% of all teenagers are bipolar…Where did that data come from???”
and of course, just like I figured, it’s 20% of teenagers admitted to the psychiatric unit at Bradley hospital in Providence RI.
I don’t like misleading headlines…
I find this report very interesting. I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry … 
djm
Well now, Dix, be fair. MSN is asking YOU the question. You are supposed to consider their headlines food for thought, not news. They are giving you a research topic for the day and you are expected to do the research, not them. They don’t have the time, you do. They just put up possible news topics and then you try to find out if there is any actual news or not. 
Y’mean, have they got magnetic personalities? 
Steve
Y’know, Cynth, I guess I just didn’t look at it that way!
Of course, now that you explained it, it is all clear 
M
EEK - that’s close to home (literally).
And what they don’t tell you is that almost 100% of teens who check themselves into Bradley think they’re psychologically unstable.
I bet the real numbers are something like “3 out of 4 teenagers have raging hormones and are very impressionable!”
(the fourth teenager in every sample group is really a forty year old man hitting his mid-life crisis! 
)
So actually, the headline could have been:
“Are 100% of Teenagers Psychologically Unstable?”
A bit like “body shop” motto:
“All of our products have not been tested on animals”!
…(but some of them might have…!)