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Re:Apple goes to war with the BBC by Joeboy on Friday December 19, 2014 @09:24AM (#8772289)
> Foxconn's suicide rate turns out to be lower than the Chinese general population's suicide rate.

Foxconn employees' workplace suicide rate. In general I'd expect the workplace suicide rate to be a small fraction of the overall suicide rate. Maybe Foxonn employees never leave their workplace and the figures are the same, but that's not great either.

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Re:Apple goes to war with the BBC by mcphage on Friday December 19, 2014 @10:02AM (#8772462)
> Maybe Foxonn employees never leave their workplace and the figures are the same,

They don't—their workplace is an entire city, pretty much.

> but that's not great either.

It's not, but it's a very different issue, and conflating the two is harmful to handling either.

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