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Norcal Doctor's “Year's Worth of Suicide Attempts”: Wasn't True
- gojomo 6y agoNormally this wouldn't necessarily be HN material, nor would I usually want to use Buzzfeed as a source. But, a prior story featuring this doctor's quote got a lot of front-page time & discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269396 And, a lot of the discussion was about the thin sourcing, or different indications from elsewhere. Well, it turns out the doc was just speaking hyperbolically from a transient impression: the real data isn't anything like the multiples he implied.