Your statement is correct but misses the point

Re:Your statement is correct but misses the point by anchpop on Monday April 13, 2020 @11:56AM (#22856922)

For anyone curious, the base rate of at least one person committing suicide based on these numbers is `1-((1-(13.42/100,000))^800) = 10%`. I suspect the suicide rate for engineers (who tend to be white, middle-upper class men) is somewhat different from the national average so take these numbers with a grain of salt

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Re:Your statement is correct but misses the point by gonational on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:46PM (#22857433)

You’re right; upper middle class white males are the most vilified and attacked and hated class of people in the world for whatever reason; I wonder if this makes that demographic more prone to suicide.

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Re:Your statement is correct but misses the point by Izkata on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:29PM (#22857897)

Men are nearly 4x more likely to commit suicide than women, and "white" is 1.5-2x higher than other races [0], so while I'm not seeing combined stats it's pretty certain that that combination is higher than the general population.

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

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Re:Your statement is correct but misses the point by gonational on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:18PM (#22861249)

I know; I wasn’t disagreeing. I was guessing the reason.

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