There’s a bit of a mismatch in the results produced by a recent survey of 2,000 British citizens.

That poll found that an absurd number of respondents are apprehensive about the prospect of, believe it or not, ringing someone’s doorbell. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that apprehension is more pronounced among young people.

Nearly one-quarter of Millennials said they avoid the doorbell. Almost two-fifths of Gen Z respondents agreed, saying they believe that texting was “less intrusive” than just dropping in. Another “19 percent believed ringing a bell was too formal, and 23 percent thought their friend was more likely to hear their phone,” according to The Independent’s reporting.

But is all this doorbell avoidance necessary? Not according to that same survey, which found that just 23 percent would react negatively to an unexpected ringing of the doorbell. Indeed, only 7 percent say they would experience stress or anxiety from an unanticipated ding-dong.

So it’s not really that younger people are defending the cellphone as a necessary modern social convention; it seems more like they’re inventing excuses to avoid absenting themselves from the digital world. Maybe there is rampant neurosis abroad, of which doorbell phobia is an example. Or perhaps neurosis is merely a fashionable cover for laziness.