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> For example, with the advent of no-fault divorce, divorces went up, but female suicide rates dropped by 20%. It wasn't all streamers and light when the 'guard
by cscurmudgeon 5y ago
> For example, with the advent of no-fault divorce, divorces went up, but female suicide rates dropped by 20%. It wasn't all streamers and light when the 'guard rails' were on.
Did the female rate decrease more in married groups than unmarried groups? Without more data, this seems like a ripe candidate for https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Suicide rates have been dropping across the board due to a variety of reasons. Attribution is very hard here.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2504425&page=1 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2504425&page=1