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To: discostu
Anything happening in .03% of the population is NOT a crisis. Even if the rate has gone up by 25% it’s still basically a statistically insignificant group size.

Well, no. That is the number per year out of the total population, not the cumulative risk over one's lifetime. In 2011, the last year for which final statistics are available, about one in 63 deaths in the U.S. was officially classified as a suicide. If one includes instances of single car crashes and suicide by cop, it is probably higher.

29 posted on 08/15/2014 3:21:05 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Even cumulative with .03% a year stacked up over a lifetime it still means you’re probably not dieing of suicide. It’s still not coming anywhere near things like the flu and nobody thinks that’s a crisis. It’s just an overused word.


30 posted on 08/15/2014 3:28:43 PM PDT by discostu (Villains always blink their eyes.)
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