Re: “I tried to be careful NOT TO reference it as 192% higher. I may have slipped up a time or two.”
You used the word “higher” five times and the word “more” four times.
In any event, why would you express yourself like this: “24.8 is 192% of 12.9.”
If both rates were 12.9, would you write “12.9 is 100% of 12.9.”
Of course not. 100% is just 1.0 times any number you want to multiple. You would just say they were the “same rate.”
As for the rest of your Comments, I return to my original thesis:
The risk that any human being will even attempt suicide in his/her lifetime is less than one percent.
The only way we can significantly reduce that already tiny number is to savagely attack personal liberty...
Confiscate all guns, confiscate all alcohol, prohibit all pain medication, incarcerate everyone who shows signs of mental illness or personal grief...
The list is endless.
Anyone who read that post could see the raw numbers for themselves.
I don’t care if you like how I posted this or not.
I suspect you have the tools to grasp what was presented, and I think the other folks do too.
If you don’t, well..., not my problem.
You trailing comments about stopping suicides once again addresses something I never addressed, or even remotely suggested.
Where did you get the idea I was advocating gun control?
Good grief.
In any event, why would you express yourself like this: “24.8 is 192% of 12.9.”
Well, because it is.
Yikes, this has been hard for you hasn’t it.
Yes I did refer improperly to them being 192% more. That was not appropriate.
With the raw figures there, I’m pretty sure most folks would be able to gleen the truth of it from the post.
If not, well, I’m not sure my using the proper terms would have helped.