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Low income is not inequality. Also, if you even bother to look at your google search result, it says "socioeconomic positions" proxied by insurance premium.

jamescostian 8y ago
> Low income is not inequality I never said the word inequality, and I don't understand why you're bringing it up in a discussion about suicide risk factors. > if you even bother to look ... proxied by insurance premium I did look, and that's why I saw this: "Medicaid recipients had the highest suicide hazard ratio (2.28; 95% CI, 1.87–2.77)." Medicaid is about low income or low assets
- tathougies 8y ago
  > I never said the word inequality, and I don't understand why you're bringing it up in a discussion about suicide risk factors. Then why did you respond to a comment that mentioned inequality to begin with.
  - jamescostian 8y ago
    Why did I respond to a comment that drew conclusions using the wrong statistics? It's pretty simple. I was teaching someone a small lesson about drawing conclusions from the wrong statistics, and backing myself up with a link to a study to show them what statistics you should use to draw such conclusions. As the HN Guidelines say, "Eschew flamebait [...] unless you have something genuinely new to say" - I don't have anything genuinely new to say about inequality and suicide, and I don't see you or the other person who responded to me saying anything genuinely new either. Also "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle" - please stop making my comment (about drawing conclusions from the wrong dataset) about your own political interests, unless you have something genuinely new to say, in which case I'm all ears.
    - winibe4r 8y ago
      This is what you said btw >If the point you're trying to make is that suicide isn't correlated with low income He didn't, not even close. That why I called you out for arguing about something nobody mentioned. >Also "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle" - please stop making my comment The person you replied this to is completely new to the thread and all he said was "Then why did you respond to a comment that mentioned inequality to begin with". Not sure why are you releasing all the anger on him. You ain't a smart fella aren't ya?

jamescostian 8y ago

> Low income is not inequality I never said the word inequality, and I don't understand why you're bringing it up in a discussion about suicide risk factors. > if you even bother to look ... proxied by insurance premium I did look, and that's why I saw this: "Medicaid recipients had the highest suicide hazard ratio (2.28; 95% CI, 1.87–2.77)." Medicaid is about low income or low assets

tathougies 8y ago
> I never said the word inequality, and I don't understand why you're bringing it up in a discussion about suicide risk factors. Then why did you respond to a comment that mentioned inequality to begin with.
- jamescostian 8y ago
  Why did I respond to a comment that drew conclusions using the wrong statistics? It's pretty simple. I was teaching someone a small lesson about drawing conclusions from the wrong statistics, and backing myself up with a link to a study to show them what statistics you should use to draw such conclusions. As the HN Guidelines say, "Eschew flamebait [...] unless you have something genuinely new to say" - I don't have anything genuinely new to say about inequality and suicide, and I don't see you or the other person who responded to me saying anything genuinely new either. Also "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle" - please stop making my comment (about drawing conclusions from the wrong dataset) about your own political interests, unless you have something genuinely new to say, in which case I'm all ears.
  - winibe4r 8y ago
    This is what you said btw >If the point you're trying to make is that suicide isn't correlated with low income He didn't, not even close. That why I called you out for arguing about something nobody mentioned. >Also "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle" - please stop making my comment The person you replied this to is completely new to the thread and all he said was "Then why did you respond to a comment that mentioned inequality to begin with". Not sure why are you releasing all the anger on him. You ain't a smart fella aren't ya?