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Re:Suicide rising across the US by acover on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:09PM (#17259124)
Did they correct for any confounding variables? Old people are more likely to kill themselves and US has an aging population.

Edit: Also, old people in the USA are more likely to be white.

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Re:Suicide rising across the US by joshuahedlund on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:15PM (#17259193)
I don't have time to follow the links and dig into the data quality but a recent SSC post[0] claims "Blacks and Hispanics have only about half the suicide rate of whites", which seems pretty strong to be accounted for by average age differences.

[0]http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/31/in-search-of-missing-us...

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Re:Suicide rising across the US by acover on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:26PM (#17259313)
Yeah, I think I'm completely wrong. It's middle aged white men who have the highest likelihood. Those 64-75 have a lower rate. [0]

[0] - https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

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Re:Suicide rising across the US by sp332 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:33PM (#17259402)
According to https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/ younger Hispanic people are much more likely than young white people.
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