The following is in response to Nancy's Corner published last month. Editorial letters on any subject are welcome.

I was struck by an incongruity in the August issue of The Utah Humanist. Nancy's Corner synopsized an article in the Harvard Mental Health Letter to the effect that "realism and depression are significantly correlated," and yet the Happy Humanist symbol appeared more than a dozen times in the same issue. Are we trying to convince ourselves that we're happy?

Since I don't have the Harvard Mental Health Letter itself, I can only rely on Nancy's synopsis of it, which raises many more questions than it answers. But as I read her article, she did not say that realists are likely to be depressed, but only that depressed people are likely to be realists. There's a big difference. Men are not likely to be criminals, but criminals are likely to be men.

--Earl M. Wunderli