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by csense 4885 days ago
Suicides misreported as accidents; accidents misreported as suicides. If both happen equally often, they'll cancel each other out.

Is there a good reason to believe that one of these effects is stronger than the other?

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>>>Is there a good reason to believe that one of these effects is stronger than the other?

That's a great statistical question! If the data skew was proportionally equal in both directions, the two skews would cancel each other out, right?

Unfortunately, we don't know if the data skews towards accidents, or skews towards suicides, or skews towards them both equally. Here is the snarky one-liner answer to your question:

>>>Is there a good reason to believe that one of these effects is not stronger than the other?