Apparently my aunt is coming to town next week. She just txted me her itinerary.
DH had to go to a "safe driving" presentation yesterday. The guest speaker was a lady who lost her 9 yo to a person who was txting and driving. The lady ran over the girl who was in the bike lane, riding her bike home from school. The presenter has been an advocate of no cell phone use while driving ever since, spearheading a change in CO law. I have mad respect for her. Except.... she used some weird statistics in her presentation yesterday. One was that 90% of all couples who lose a child under the age of 9 end up divorced. The second is that 70% of mothers who lose a child end up committing suicide.
The 90% statistic is from a 1989 study that was since updated in 1999 to show a more accurate 16%. I have no idea where the suicide statistic is from. When talking with DH last night about it, I became pissed. I understand wanting to shock your audience to listen to your cause, but these are no longer abstract numbers for me. They're my life. If you're out there misrepresenting the statistics to inflate your cause, what else are you doing?
Anyway, the presentation is currently being pushed as mandatory for all depts. in the org. I think I'll be asking my boss to excuse me.
This is all I found pixy "A recent Danish population study showed twice as many deaths by suicide in bereaved mothers compared with a matched cohort of mothers who had not lost a child.2 The data did not, however, relate the mother's suicide with her child's cause of death. A similar study further evaluated the relation between parental status and suicide.3 Generally, being a parent protected against suicide. But the death of a child strongly affected parental suicide, and the impact was greater when adjusted for other risk factors. Death of a young child (1 to 6 years) was correlated with more suicide in parents, and the risk was highest the month after the death of the child."
Post by cattledogkisses on Oct 1, 2014 10:56:05 GMT -5
Her misrepresenting the statistics without considering how that could affect other parents who have lost a child is kind of selfish, even if she trying to promote a good cause.
Her misrepresenting the statistics without considering how that could affect other parents who have lost a child is kind of selfish, even if she trying to promote a good cause.
I'm sorry Mr. Pixy had to sit through that.
I agree.
I think it is reasonable of you to request to be excused, Pixy.
Any type of misrepresentation of statistics makes me rage, but this particular one is just...beyond. It completely makes her whole argument questionable.
I barely got any sleep reading the shit that went down on ML last night.
I'm catching up, but I still don't understand the history.
There was a poster on ML who was having a difficult time. She just got divorced and just found out she was pregnant with a new boyfriends baby. Most people were supportive but a couple people thought the timing was off. She then posted the doctor called and said it looked like she was going to have a m/c in two weeks. Cue more skepticism and infighting about questioning her during this (possible) difficult time. Yesterday a friend of hers who is also a Mler posted saying she stands by the poster. Then last night , right when I was sitting down to watch TV with H, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. Someone found the posters photo bucket account which contained old pictures of Mlers and their kids. After about an hour of us all going WTF the pictures in the account started disappearing and then the account was marked private. Next someone noticed the owners of the photo bucket account was an old Mler who had previously contacted someone’s place of employment and some other crazy stuff. Folks started their google skills and someone found her real name and address which was posted in the thread. The Mod’s deleted the thread and now there is just fallout from ML being catfished ( I think?) once again.
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Oct 1, 2014 11:09:45 GMT -5
FIL and his "wife" are coming over this weekend. I don't have much right to complain because my parents have been down quiteva bit lately, but damn if I don't want them to stay home.
(In don't like me FIL and have no interest in meeting his "wife.")
I'm catching up, but I still don't understand the history.
There was a poster on ML who was having a difficult time. She just got divorced and just found out she was pregnant with a new boyfriends baby. Most people were supportive but a couple people thought the timing was off. She then posted the doctor called and said it looked like she was going to have a m/c in two weeks. Cue more skepticism and infighting about questioning her during this (possible) difficult time. Yesterday a friend of hers who is also a Mler posted saying she stands by the poster. Then last night , right when I was sitting down to watch TV with H, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. Someone found the posters photo bucket account which contained old pictures of Mlers and their kids. After about an hour of us all going WTF the pictures in the account started disappearing and then the account was marked private. Next someone noticed the owners of the photo bucket account was an old Mler who had previously contacted someone’s place of employment and some other crazy stuff. Folks started their google skills and someone found her real name and address which was posted in the thread. The Mod’s deleted the thread and now there is just fallout from ML being catfished ( I think?) once again.
I have to wonder, again, why ML gets catfished all the time.
There was a poster on ML who was having a difficult time. She just got divorced and just found out she was pregnant with a new boyfriends baby. Most people were supportive but a couple people thought the timing was off. She then posted the doctor called and said it looked like she was going to have a m/c in two weeks. Cue more skepticism and infighting about questioning her during this (possible) difficult time. Yesterday a friend of hers who is also a Mler posted saying she stands by the poster. Then last night , right when I was sitting down to watch TV with H, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. Someone found the posters photo bucket account which contained old pictures of Mlers and their kids. After about an hour of us all going WTF the pictures in the account started disappearing and then the account was marked private. Next someone noticed the owners of the photo bucket account was an old Mler who had previously contacted someone’s place of employment and some other crazy stuff. Folks started their google skills and someone found her real name and address which was posted in the thread. The Mod’s deleted the thread and now there is just fallout from ML being catfished ( I think?) once again.
I have to wonder, again, why ML gets catfished all the time.
I have to wonder, again, why ML gets catfished all the time.
that's what i wonder. all we get is dyl/emmy? FFS
and dont leave out that the pregnancy (which the BFF MLer is still insisting is real as much as she can without ever meeting this chick) would be the 3rd m/c story she has spun on the boards.
I think one of the m/c stories was a tragic one which was very similar to someone who really had a tragic m/c. I will say I am happy Elle is contacting photobucket I didn't like her having peoples kids in her account. Not one bit.
Nice summary iammalcolmx! I've been hanging on the outskirts, & it looks like I'm going to remain there for a bit. Get ready for some more miniroller, CEP- ha!!
Nice summary iammalcolmx! I've been hanging on the outskirts, & it looks like I'm going to remain there for a bit. Get ready for some more miniroller, CEP- ha!!
Glad I could help. I am usually never caught up and an begging folks to explain the stuff to me
Post by orangeblossom on Oct 1, 2014 11:23:54 GMT -5
I posted a month ago about DH running over something in his Smart Car. It took forever to fix it. Once he got it back, it was still leaking oil. He took it back, and is now telling me it may need to be totaled, because it looks like the engine may be messed up.
I had to quiet the glee I was feeling when I was talking to him, and was all oh, that's too bad. We'll have to see what they say in the most supportive time.
Secretly, I hope it is totaled. I'm over him having a Smart Car.
Post by redheadbaker on Oct 1, 2014 11:44:32 GMT -5
Last week, one of the new copyeditors at work quit unexpectedly.
They brought in this elderly lady. She's driving everyone nuts.
The admin had to teach her how to use Outlook ("The ones that are bolded mean you haven't read them yet. When you open them, the bolding goes away.")
She can't seem to follow simple instructions. "Review this copy to make sure all changes were made." and she starts marking up style changes. They tell her that she doesn't need to do that *in this round* and she says back, "Well, that's what you brought me in to do [it's not ONLY what she was brought in to do], so I guess you don't need me!"
The woman also doesn't seem to understand that sometimes, a brand's standards will differ from AP or Chicago Manual of Style standards. Like, she's arguing that Chicago uses the serial comma. OK, great. This particular client doesn't. They're not going to change it because you don't like it.