You haven't mentioned other things that student athletes might have like camaraderie, scholarships, dietary programs, parental support, varying stress levels, or other factors. At this point, admitting you don't know and then continuing to talk is worse than just shutting up.
Just like the narrower category of NCAA student-athletes are people who are going better than the gen pop of college students - this is enforced by the category (your GPA has to be above a certain level, you can't have serious disciplinary issues on your record, etc)
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And being an athlete is, you know, generally a good thing about your life that you've got going for you All of this is just general obvious shit for why a student-athlete is less likely to be depressed than someone just like them who isn't even in college
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Getting all the way down to the specific issue of saying "It's the cardiovascular exercise, that must be it, it prevents depression" is stupid Yeah we all know physical exercise is negatively correlated with depression but there are so many confounders here
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