here's my visualization of why comparing aggregated age groups is misleadingpic.twitter.com/UF4Rh5mfbs
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see also Russian middle-aged-male suicide spike after fall of wall. We middle aged men collapse easily under anomie stress
suicide seems to be a linear function of age in white men compared to other groups, but LESS so recentlypic.twitter.com/iRcjNlLr6G
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and the increase in white middle aged death is driven entirely by women
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in china more women than men commit suicide because of access to lethal poison - poisoning deaths are huge % of increase now
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when you're at the top of the race+gender pyramid, there's nobody to blame above you when things get shitty
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immigrants tend to have the same suicide rate as nation of origin though...
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