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The entire premise/point of this article seems to be that there has been an increase in the suicide rate, but then offers no evidence to support that. The clos
by mike-cardwell 8y ago
The entire premise/point of this article seems to be that there has been an increase in the suicide rate, but then offers no evidence to support that.
The closest they come to offering evidence is the statement "Since December, there has been a rash of apparent suicides among the city’s taxi drivers", with a link to a NY times article where there is also no evidence of an increase or any information whatsoever about what the normal rate has been over the past 20/30 years.
Is this what passes for journalism?
- xapata 8y agoNo, that's the excuse to write the article. The point seemed to be to discuss the low-skill labor market. While the excuse was flimsy, the point was well-made.
- mike-cardwell 8y agoPeople will walk away from that article thinking that the suicide rate among taxi drivers in NY is high and that it has increased. Both things the article has not offered any evidence for, and which by the looks of things, are probably untrue.
- xapata 8y agoFunny, my immediate assumption was that it was a bogus claim. Most "news" about some uptick in a rare thing in a small subpopulation is just noise. It's like reporting on which city has the highest cancer rate. Of course it's some tiny town where the small sample size causes some outlier.