10/n Now, the authors have not standardized these rates to population, but that is fairly easy to do. The population figures for Maryland are here:https://datausa.io/profile/geo/maryland#demographics …
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21/n And it's also not to say that a study with larger numbers may not be able to show such a difference. It is certainly possible that there is a meaningful change here that is simply not possible to see with so few events
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22/n That being said, numerically I think it's important to note that the doubling of suicides in the Black community during Mar/Apr in Maryland was entirely offset by a 20% reduction in suicides in the preceding and following months
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23/n There may be a statistical test that shows significance of a sort here, but conceptually I don't think there is much meaning to be garnered from numbers like this
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