BS studies Options

[impala454]

Ok this is really getting on my nerves. Every other day some group of people X puts out a study Y that's omg crazy off the wall "news". What the hell does it take to do a "study" and have some media outlet publish it as some cold hard fact? Post idiotic bullshit studies you find in this thread.



My bitching in today's particular case comes from this:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5957958.html

Two researchers at the University of Texas at Austin surveyed 26,000 students across 70 colleges and universities. More than half said they had at least one episode of suicidal thinking. Fifteen percent reported they have seriously considered suicide and more than 5 percent had attempted suicide at least one time.

Say WHAT!@? So these two researches at TU have come to the conclusion with this survey that 5% of all college students have ATTEMPTED suicide!!?!!!!?!?!!? You have got to be fucking kidding me!! That's 1 in 20 people! And obviously the ones who actually succeeded weren't included in the survey . Does anyone actually believe this is true? That statistically you could walk into any classroom in any college and two people in there have attempted suicide?

[Epic]

actually, yes, but that's because i don't view a suicide attempt the way you do.

suicide attempts were defined in my studies as planned attempts to end one's only life where any or all of the execution took place.

it isn't just the failed suicide attempts. it is beginning the process, and not finishing. it is cutting your wrists, but not laying there waiting to die. it is taking a bunch of pills, then purging them.

a recent article i read indicated that there is reason to believe that automobile crashes are becoming more of a common suicide attempt because if you don't die, you can always play it off, but they hadn't done much research behind it.

people are fucked up (or being told they are fucked up and believing it) and yes it is weak and in many cases pathetic, but I do believe that at least one person in my classes has tried to kill themselves.