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Suicide hotline efficacy data: Assessment, descriptive data, t-tests, correlation, regression examples abound

ASIDE: THIS IS MY 500th POST. PLEASE CLAP. Efficacy data about a mental health intervention? Yes, please. The example has so much potential in a psych stats classroom. Or an abnormal/clinical classroom, or research methods. Maybe even human factors, because three numbers are easy to remember than 10? This post was inspired by an NPR story  by Rhitu Chatterjee. It is all about America's mental health emergency hotline's switch from a 10-digit phone number to the much easier-to-remember three digits (988), and the various ways that the government has measured the success of this change. How to use this (and related material) in class: 1) Assessment. In the NPR interview, the describe how several markers have improved: Wait times, dropped calls, etc.  Okay, so the NPR story sent me down a rabbit hole of looking for this data so we can use it in class. Here is the federal government's website about  988  and a link to their specific  988  performance data,...