>To an alarming degree, selfie deaths seem to plague India. Here, 19 individuals — 40% of all selfie-related fatalities — met their demise. This can’t solely be attributed to India’s large population (China, by contrast, has only one reported death).
Two comments based on that quote alone:
1) These numbers are ridiculously low. You can find 50 people dying worldwide every year from X-related fatalities where X is just about anything.
2) They acknowledge a crucial fact in their second sentence, that they aren't bothering to correct for population or selfie-frequency in any of the demographics they compare (across countries in this case). Of what use are the numbers, then? May as well compare non-price-level-adjusted prices of goods across countries.
They seem to have done the research by Google news stories, presumably with English-language queries. Much of the media in India is English language, but little in China.
Shorter: GIGO. That chart had no business in the article.
Right. And they seemed to make a big deal about male vs female selfie deaths, but I don't think there is enough data here for statistical significance.
Two comments based on that quote alone:
1) These numbers are ridiculously low. You can find 50 people dying worldwide every year from X-related fatalities where X is just about anything.
2) They acknowledge a crucial fact in their second sentence, that they aren't bothering to correct for population or selfie-frequency in any of the demographics they compare (across countries in this case). Of what use are the numbers, then? May as well compare non-price-level-adjusted prices of goods across countries.