BuzzFeed rounds up 13 statistics Reddit users called frightening, spanning health, crime, climate, work and space. Examples include claims that medical bills account for 66% of US bankruptcies and voice fire alarms wake children more often than tone-only alarms.
One commenter attributed relationship-breakdown figures to a 2009 study of married patients with serious illness: the quoted separation or divorce rate was 20.8% when the woman was ill and 2.9% when the man was. The roundup provides no links or full citations for the quoted figures.
