You can quantify the impact in terms of Years of Productive Life Lost -- YPPL. This metric looks at death rates of folks of working age.
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[cw: suicide] We know that in Turkey, suicide rates have spiked since the coup. We can also look at heart disease & hypertension.
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Apply that by a probability estimate across the most affected populations, and that gives you YPPL.
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Given the scale, I wouldn't be surprised if it comes close to the effect of not wearing seatbelts. Just a back of envelope guess.
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Ok, so ends my callback to datasci followers. Back to the daily outrage.
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I twice typo'd YPLL in this thread, sigh.
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And no one noticed?
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Epidemiology threads aren't a bestseller, let's be honest.
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