• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    This is kind of a bullshit statistic.

    Female suicides for women have always been low, so the per 100k can vary a bit. In 1970 it was 7.4 per 100k and by 1980 it had dropped to 5.7 per 100k. However, in 1950 and 1960 it was 5.6 per 100k.

    So really the “drop” was due to a single high decade of suicides before going back to the average that it had been at. The drop in suicides after the 1970’s was really still a slightly higher rate than the 50s and 60s.

    Also, men commit suicide roughly four to five times more often than women.

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      Far higher social stigmas and family pressure likely led to fewer deaths being ruled suicide in the 1950s as compared to today but of course there can be no data on this fact, just anecdotes.

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        Anecdotal and a lack of causation. Saying suicides in women dropped after getting no fault divorce after the 70’s is no more a causational fact than saying female suicide rates dropped after the 70’s due to Billy Joel releasing his hit single My Life in 1979

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          due to Billy Joel releasing his hit single My Life in 1979

          Seems legit. That’s a pretty inspirational song.

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          3 days ago

          Statistics on women’s health from the 50s is probably as reliable as using a Billy Joel song.

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            Then so would statistics from the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s. You don’t like hearing what the actual data is because it doesn’t fit with your own predetermined narrative, so it must be the data that’s wrong. Sounds a lot like Trump. He only believes the polls that claim people love him.