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?