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>To an alarming degree, selfie deaths seem to plague India. Here, 19 individuals — 40% of all selfie-related fatalities — met their demise. This can’t solely be
by savanaly 11y ago
>To an alarming degree, selfie deaths seem to plague India. Here, 19 individuals — 40% of all selfie-related fatalities — met their demise. This can’t solely be attributed to India’s large population (China, by contrast, has only one reported death).
Two comments based on that quote alone:
1) These numbers are ridiculously low. You can find 50 people dying worldwide every year from X-related fatalities where X is just about anything.
2) They acknowledge a crucial fact in their second sentence, that they aren't bothering to correct for population or selfie-frequency in any of the demographics they compare (across countries in this case). Of what use are the numbers, then? May as well compare non-price-level-adjusted prices of goods across countries.
- mturmon 11y agoThey seem to have done the research by Google news stories, presumably with English-language queries. Much of the media in India is English language, but little in China. Shorter: GIGO. That chart had no business in the article.
- em3rgent0rdr 11y agoRight. And they seemed to make a big deal about male vs female selfie deaths, but I don't think there is enough data here for statistical significance.
- unfamiliar 11y ago> May as well compare non-price-level-adjusted prices of goods across countries. Which is done on a regular basis and nobody seems to have a problem with it. "Oh my god, someone in India is earning only $10 a day!"