your tweet appears to have a few math errors.
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based on the article you linked: 1)300-400K employees at suicide plant not 900K. 2)12 suicides (which was through May) if annualized would be around 1 per 10K workers. 3) China's suicide rate is 22.23 people out of every 100,000 this rate is about 98% lower than u cited
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1. The suicide number is for the whole company, not just the one location that the author of the article visited 2. No suicides were reported for the rest of the year, that's the final number 3. You're right that's a typo. 127.42 is the number per year Foxconn "should" have
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Nobody ever asks to see the denominator, and the media is often dishonest in leaving it out.
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Anecdotes sell incredibly well
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But what percentage of suicides happen on the job?
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Foxconn provides living quarters for its employees, so not sure that would be a valuable statistic
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Its kinda like how people in small towns who watch the "local" news for the closest big city all tend to think cities are super dangerous because of all the police shootings/car chases/robberies that get reported seem like a lot relative to their own town population
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127.42 per 10k is roughly 1.3%. Can it really be true that 1.3% of China’s population commits suicide each year? I don’t believe that.
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The denominator being the entire Chinese population is also not a complete picture IMO. The other suicides could be associated with hotspots. Perhaps Foxconn is one of those hotspots.
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