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That’s me in the picture: Kevin Berthia on the Golden Gate bridge (theguardian.com)
110 points by sssilver on Oct 18, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments




Death by suicide is very common. In the US there is one death to suicide every 13.3 minutes. In the UK about 12 men die each day.

http://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures

http://www.mandown.co/


Sorry to nag, but there is no reason to put those similar metrics in two different "measurements". That just makes the ratio blurry.

drunk trol...


Replying to an old comment:

You're right. I tend to not change the numbers when I quote them. That makes it easier for people to check that I am accurately reporting from the source rather than just pulling a narrow - wrong - interpretation.

Statistics are tricky. One source of error is to misquote a statistic, or to give it a different context. Thus, I try to avoid doing that.




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