*Epidemiologists everywhere scream* Seriously, this statistic by itself is totally meaninglesshttps://twitter.com/bugwannostra/status/1096539431874355200 …
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DHS don't go out of their way to be useful with figures
We'd want comparison data for non-debt Centrelink recipients to dig into the gender discrepancy, for instance, but that's still crude — current & former recipients aren't differentiated, & that may (or may not) matter. -
Pretty much. You'd want a matched cohort of current centrelink recipients with age, gender and the like to even come cost to establishing causality. In my professional opinion, it's likely that there were some deaths caused directly by debt notices but probably not that many
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That was my first question; how much above the norm is this? Did you know that most people die in a bed? Perhaps, then, if we just kept them out of beds, they would live forever. ;)
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#robodebt has pushed people — including families with children — into#homelessness, but sadly we’re not convinced their lack of beds is going to improve their longevity. You can read some people’s stories here: http://notmydebt.com.au/stories/notmydebt-stories?field_payment_type_value=All&field_contesting_debt__value=All&combine=Homeless&field_date_debt_issued_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=&field_period_debt_occurred_value%5Bmin%5D%5Bmonth%5D=&field_period_debt_occurred_value%5Bmin%5D%5Byear%5D=&field_period_debt_occurred_value%5Bmax%5D%5Bmonth%5D=&field_period_debt_occurred_value%5Bmax%5D%5Byear%5D=&field_amount_owed_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_amount_owed_value%5Bmax%5D= …
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