A lot of the data in the ACE study is actually pretty dodgy -- what people are comfortable admitting to changes over time, and also people forget things as they

A lot of the data in the ACE study is actually pretty dodgy -- what people are comfortable admitting to changes over time, and also people forget things as they get older. So comparing responses from a 70-year-old to responses from a 30-year-old about things that happened in their childhood is kind of apples and oranges. I still think it's an important study and worth talking about, but I'm not sure I really believe that, say, people are 5x more likely to commit suicide or 4.5x more likely to get an STD than they were 20 years earlier.