@AndrewSabisky the flatness of the suicide rate is maybe the most interesting "health" trend of our century
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@AndrewSabisky Do you suspect negative feedbacks‽ What force (or forces) could push low rates up and high rates down?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@othercriteria@sarahdoingthing@AndrewSabisky it could easily be a single countervailing trend (say, anomie,) countering better outcomes.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @davidmanheim
@davidmanheim@othercriteria@AndrewSabisky in Canada it's actually gone up, UK flat since the 70spic.twitter.com/6GHkKIF6hy
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@davidmanheim@othercriteria@AndrewSabisky treatment must be really weak if it doesn't even show up - I agree other factors swamp it1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@othercriteria@AndrewSabisky the problem is that we're considering population level data with huge variability.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @davidmanheim
@sarahdoingthing@othercriteria@AndrewSabisky it could easily be effective enough to have a positive ROI and still not appear in this data.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @davidmanheim
@sarahdoingthing@othercriteria@AndrewSabisky but of course that doesn't make it the most cost effective way to fix this.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @davidmanheim
@davidmanheim@othercriteria@AndrewSabisky I also don't think suicide is a medical issue at all, so...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@othercriteria@AndrewSabisky I don't know what you mean. And there can still be medical solutions to nonmedical problems.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@davidmanheim well like I wrote a book about how suicide is a moral right among other things and not nec crazy or irrational
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing I agree, but we can still argue for socially optimal levels of (attempted) suicides via preventative medical interventions.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @davidmanheim
@davidmanheim the signaling theory of (some) suicides predicts that a policy of intervention encourages dangerous attempts2 replies 0 retweets 1 like - 1 more reply
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