here's my visualization of why comparing aggregated age groups is misleading
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comparing mortality of age groups overstates losses for white men but MASSIVELY understates gains for black people pnas.org/content/113/7/
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...because men 45-54 are older in 2014 than they were in 2000, but it's even MORE extreme for black men
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what's analysis in aid of? Also seems like an unusual interest for a banana
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trying to understand the phenomenon of increase in all-cause mortality driven by voluntary-ish death among white americans 2000-1014
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the extent to which it exists (compared to other populations it does), what it means, for evolutionary psychology stuff
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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
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suicide seems to be a linear function of age in white men compared to other groups, but LESS so recently
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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
how would you even investigate this empirically? Financial condition, health, employment, addiction correlations?
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immigrants tend to have the same suicide rate as nation of origin though...
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second edition of Banana Book of the Dead and Unborn seems to be in works
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