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I don't want to come of as flippant, but I'm genuinely curious: Is there a correlation to how many stories the person's residence has as well? If they live on

I don't want to come of as flippant, but I'm genuinely curious: Is there a correlation to how many stories the person's residence has as well? If they live on a 3rd story of an apartment, is there a higher suicide rate than the first floor of an apartment?

JimtheCoder 3y ago
Getting granular data like this on a large scale can be rather difficult. Even knowing things like where the final act was committed (at home, not at home, etc) would be super useful, but that data is hard to come by i'm sure, especially at scale.
rmellow 3y ago
Surely the rate of successful defenestration is lower at the 3rd vs the 13th floor.
smeej 3y ago
The percentage of time spent at home would vary too much from person to person anyway, whereas percentage of time spent in the county of one's home is much more homogenous.
Symmetry 3y ago
Given that even a 1000 meter change in height above sea level only leads to a large but not huge change in suicide rates, I'd be very surprised if a 6 meter change in where you spend half the day would be statistically detectable.
twobitshifter 3y ago
That’s actually a really interesting field of study https://buildingtheskyline.org/highrise-living/ https://buildingtheskyline.org/highrise-living/ High rises have their own associations with mental illness. I don’t know if anyone has ever looked at pure altitude as possible effect.
- CrimsonCape 3y ago
  High-rise depression is caused by the architectural design. Rental apartments in a high rise are for-profit, and 99.9% of the time a developer is maximizing the rentable amount of square footage and minimizing the amount of non-rentable square footage. This eliminates all common spaces that might foster inter-personal interaction and relationships with your neighbors. Anecdotally, a 1:5 relationship is about ideal, for every x5 700 square foot apartments, there should be 700 square feet of common space. Think 5 doors attached to one courtyard that itself is about the size of an apartment. From a for-profit point of view, this is a waste of construction cost.

JimtheCoder 3y ago

Getting granular data like this on a large scale can be rather difficult. Even knowing things like where the final act was committed (at home, not at home, etc) would be super useful, but that data is hard to come by i'm sure, especially at scale.

rmellow 3y ago

Surely the rate of successful defenestration is lower at the 3rd vs the 13th floor.

smeej 3y ago

The percentage of time spent at home would vary too much from person to person anyway, whereas percentage of time spent in the county of one's home is much more homogenous.

Symmetry 3y ago

Given that even a 1000 meter change in height above sea level only leads to a large but not huge change in suicide rates, I'd be very surprised if a 6 meter change in where you spend half the day would be statistically detectable.

twobitshifter 3y ago

That’s actually a really interesting field of study https://buildingtheskyline.org/highrise-living/ https://buildingtheskyline.org/highrise-living/ High rises have their own associations with mental illness. I don’t know if anyone has ever looked at pure altitude as possible effect.

CrimsonCape 3y ago
High-rise depression is caused by the architectural design. Rental apartments in a high rise are for-profit, and 99.9% of the time a developer is maximizing the rentable amount of square footage and minimizing the amount of non-rentable square footage. This eliminates all common spaces that might foster inter-personal interaction and relationships with your neighbors. Anecdotally, a 1:5 relationship is about ideal, for every x5 700 square foot apartments, there should be 700 square feet of common space. Think 5 doors attached to one courtyard that itself is about the size of an apartment. From a for-profit point of view, this is a waste of construction cost.