• Hildegarde
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    6 months ago

    The scale on the left y goes from 8-16. The suicide rate went from 13.6/k to just under 10/k. A 30% or so drop, major but not quite as huge as this graph makes it appear.

    • @alphanerd4OPM
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      -36 months ago

      Yes. Okay, but like,. Why?

      frfr actually curious i know my knee jerk radical ass perfectly perfected provocative posthungry postulations are wrong

      • Hildegarde
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        146 months ago

        I was taught in school to always be skeptical of graphs where zero is not zero. It shows the change clearly, but misrepresents overall picture.

        • @alphanerd4OPM
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          16 months ago

          thats a good rule of thumb. Its meant to show change in the time that its showing. I said the same thing about stocks.