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.
Yes. Okay, but like,. Why?
frfr actually curious i know my knee jerk radical ass perfectly perfected provocative posthungry postulations are wrong
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.
thats a good rule of thumb. Its meant to show change in the time that its showing. I said the same thing about stocks.
“What we are experiencing now is a return to the pre 9/11 norm.”
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The peak is at 1994 though.
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yea well its also when i was born so i don’t quite follow your meaning, maybe you should spell it out.
edit: like i know we like to talk a big game about unempathetic boomers, but cmon man, for a suicide thing? edit2: f*ck i already did 9/11
Its interesting how this trends with political correctness movements.
The 90s was the end of it with court cases over ruling speach that hurt feelings being a crime etc.
Then the mid teens to today we have people all over upset about anything and everything, dont upset anyone or you’re a horrible person etc.
I dont really have links but i have an article, i just know from living through times amd listing to others.
https://reason.com/2021/12/13/the-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/
I’m not saying that suicide and PC culture go hand in hand but the people pushing these agendas are often ones who commit suicide the most.
