<p>“If Cornell didn’t make its school so da-mn difficult you wouldn’t see those suicide rates.”</p>
<p>Exactly. When there were zero suicides at Cornell every year from 2005 thru 2008, it’'s because they made the work ridiculously easy in those years. How else can one explain how Gomestar could graduate from Cornell ? No coincidence he attended during that very period. When you put two and two together, the obvious just jumps out at you. </p>
<p>And if the long term rate there is below national averages for college students, that’s not the point. The point is they were high in 2010, so the work must be that much harder now. Whereas you never hear about anything like this at a place like, say, Tufts, so the work must be much easier there. Just like it was, obviously, at Cornell from 2005-2008 when they actually even let Gomestar graduate.</p>
<p>Some psychology PhD goofballs try to complicate it to sound important, but in reality the whole phenomenon is just that simple. There is no such thing as a “cluster” phenomenon, it is just a linear response to “them” ratcheting up the work. That’s it.</p>