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>Close to 100% of humans could suicide, and yet ‘only’ about 1.4% do Very bad and misleading wording. 1.4% here is of total number of deaths, not total number
by ComodoHacker 10y ago
>Close to 100% of humans could suicide, and yet ‘only’ about 1.4% do
Very bad and misleading wording. 1.4% here is of total number of deaths, not total number of people. Also, both numbers seem untrue. Wiki says[1] "approximately 0.5% to 1.4% of people die by suicide".
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide#Epidemiology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide#Epidemiology
- jpttsn 10y agoWhat's the difference? Everyone dies, right?
- tezzer 10y agoAs I mentioned elsewhere, this math is wrong. it's 10 to 44 people per 100,000, which is .01 to .04%, 2 orders of magnitude lower than 1%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...