Introducing: Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

We all want to know if we're normal -- do I have enough friends? Should it take me this long to get over my ex? Should I move or stay where I am? Endlessly curious data journalist Mona Chalabi needs to know, and she's ready to dive into the numbers to get some answers. But studies and spreadsheets don't tell the whole story, so she's consulting experts, strangers and even her mum to fill in the gaps. The answers might surprise you, and make you ask: Does normal even exist? Follow Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Elise Hugh, some big news. You can now listen to Ted's new original podcast,
0:10.3	Am I Normal with Mona Chalaby. The trailer is coming up next. And if you're hooked, head to the new
0:16.1	Am I Normal feat to find the first two episodes, where Mona's asking, how long should it actually
0:21.6	take to get over an X? And how many close friends should you have? You can find and follow,
0:27.6	Am I Normal with Mona Chalaby, wherever you're listening to this. I'm Mona Chalaby and I'm a
0:35.2	data journalist. Numbers help me make sense of a chaotic world.
0:40.0	And they help me to understand how I fit into that chaos.
0:44.9	I find myself asking questions like how many close friends do I actually need?
0:50.4	Should men be as concerned about their fertility as I am?
0:56.1	Is teeth whitening a scam?
0:59.0	How long will it take me to get over my breakup?
1:01.5	Am I normal?
1:07.0	There's something that's orderly and comforting about the boxes of a spreadsheet.
1:14.2	But the truth is, life is messy, and numbers have their limitations. No matter how helpful they can be, numbers never tell the whole story. And the stories they do tell,
1:20.2	well, they're often a lot more complicated than they seem. Our new podcast from the TED Audio Collective is Am I Normal?
1:32.8	This season, I'm going to explore friendships.
1:36.9	Are all of our friendships decaying right now?
1:39.8	I think the short answer is yes.
1:42.3	Oh, God.
1:44.2	And dig up some stuff your dentist won't tell you.
1:47.4	There are some very basic things in dentistry that we don't have tons of good evidence.
1:52.1	I'm going to figure out how long it takes to get over a breakup.
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