Ordinary Banana

comparing mortality of age groups overstates losses for white men but MASSIVELY understates gains for black people http://www.pnas.org/content/113/7/E816.full …

...because men 45-54 are older in 2014 than they were in 2000, but it's even MORE extreme for black men

what's analysis in aid of? Also seems like an unusual interest for a banana

I'm writing a science paper for a banana journal

trying to understand the phenomenon of increase in all-cause mortality driven by voluntary-ish death among white americans 2000-1014

the extent to which it exists (compared to other populations it does), what it means, for evolutionary psychology stuff

see also Russian middle-aged-male suicide spike after fall of wall. We middle aged men collapse easily under anomie stress