Researchers listen to people who hear voices

Re:Researchers listen to people who hear voices by eyphka on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:34PM (#20365194)

This article from Yale’s website makes up numbers with zero citation.

The article asserts that 8 percent of people suffer from auditory hallucinations on a regular basis. The closest article I could find that has some number similar to this is from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744794/ which is an article about Norway and its population.

The article then asserts that 1 percent of the population suffer from Schizophrenia without citation. I found that the NIH asserts with citation that the actual number for Americans is roughly .25 to .64 of one percent. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/schizophrenia.sht...

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Re:Researchers listen to people who hear voices by sekh60 on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:57PM (#20365358)

Huh, I never saw that NIH number and I've come across a fair number of stories and articles for laypeople. I'm not doubting it, just kinda surprised since tons of people take the 1% number and parrot it. I always felt 1% was rather high.

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Re:Researchers listen to people who hear voices by alanfranz on Friday July 05, 2019 @05:20PM (#20365968)

Please. This is not reddit. Add a joke to a message if you like. But don't just drop a joke and nothing else.

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