*Epidemiologists everywhere scream* Seriously, this statistic by itself is totally meaninglesshttps://twitter.com/bugwannostra/status/1096539431874355200 …
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We are in contact with family and friends of 5 people. But we shouldn't need a *death toll* for it to be imaginable that a system that uses a reverse onus + averaging to manufacture frequently inaccurate debts against vulnerable people might be… bad.
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True, it's certainly not a great model, but I suspect for individual cases it will be impossible to prove causation. We might be able to demonstrate an increased risk of death with a statistical model, but too many factors in individuals
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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.