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Mental health is much worse amongst young women than young men and the gap is widening with time, so that part of your analysis is inverted. Example: https://s
by mike_hearn 2y ago
Mental health is much worse amongst young women than young men and the gap is widening with time, so that part of your analysis is inverted.
Example: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0384d43-4cef-421d-b522-9a0e42cb4ffd_1434x806.jpeg https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
- Moomoomoo309 2y agoSomething that complicates that statistic is the awful one the article alludes to: Broadly speaking, women attempt suicide, men commit suicide. When you're looking at nonfatal suicide, women tend to show up much higher because the men don't get admitted to the hospital, they end up in the morgue.
- lunar-whitey 2y agoMost measures that rely on self-reporting can underrepresent men; completed suicide is just the most drastic example. It’s difficult to think of a reliable measure that doesn’t have this problem.
- mike_hearn 2y agoThe same problem can be seen against a range of statistics e.g. having received a diagnosis of mental health problems from a doctor. Girl's mental health was already worse, and in the last 15 years or so was collapsing at much higher rates.