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Given suicide is relatively rare, I am wondering if this might be an artifact of low absolute population?
by fbdab103 3y ago
Given suicide is relatively rare, I am wondering if this might be an artifact of low absolute population?
- ianai 3y agoYes, rural Nevada is a whole other level of barren. That big “county” in the center is federal land with almost no (maybe none at all?) population. Also this is just firearm suicide. Maybe more enlightening with a general suicide from any cause indicator.
- fbdab103 3y agoApparently 55% of suicides are by firearms, 29% by hanging/suffocation, so guns do represent the majority[0]. [0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.955008/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.9550...
- Perceval 3y agoYes, it jumps out that a lot of the county-level, patchwork pattern exhibited in the firearm-suicide data may be an artifact of the very low populations in many of those Western counties: https://medium.com/@uwdata/surprise-maps-showing-the-unexpected-e92b67398865 https://medium.com/@uwdata/surprise-maps-showing-the-unexpec...