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Not to trivialize her tragic death but this is one hell of an object lesson in letting a study run to completion before interpreting your data (if IG is to be believed, I guess): "Police say, at the time of her death, 69% voted for her to die. However, Instagram insists that the poll, which lasted 24-hours, ended with 88% of her followers choosing ‘L’."

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>District police chief Aidil Bolhassan concedes the results may have changed during the time the poll was active as more people learned of her death.

What's funny is that Instagram have to defend themselves from this nonsense.

What's funny is denying that social media use by teenagers is more damaging to their health than, say, smoking cigarettes.

But less damaging than, say, keeping them socially isolated.

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