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[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]

i could say that I end up with around 3% of my students from class and the hall that pull a half assed attempt at suicide. I really don't think these statistics are too far off.

It just doesn't take into account the severity of the threat/action that help to blur the lines between consideration, ideation, and execution.

[impala454]

i could say that I end up with around 3% of my students from class and the hall that pull a half assed attempt at suicide. I really don't think these statistics are too far off.

It just doesn't take into account the severity of the threat/action that help to blur the lines between consideration, ideation, and execution.

Not saying you're wrong, but think about the statistic you're getting behind. That statistic says you can stand at the entrance and count, and every 33rd person has already attempted suicide. As in, they got the rope, got onto the chair, knocked it over, and hung there, but didn't die. Or they took a whole bottle of some pills and it didn't kill them. Or they shot themselves and survived. One person in every single class. Does that seem correct to you?

[FORSAKENR320]

Not saying you're wrong, but think about the statistic you're getting behind. That statistic says you can stand at the entrance and count, and every 33rd person has already attempted suicide. As in, they got the rope, got onto the chair, knocked it over, and hung there, but didn't die. Or they took a whole bottle of some pills and it didn't kill them. Or they shot themselves and survived. One person in every single class. Does that seem correct to you?

what that tells me is that every 33rd person is a failure and was never taught the rule "if at first you don't succeed"