• Addv4@lemmy.world
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      Pretty sure green would be male/female suicide parity (for every man to commit suicide, there would be a woman as well). I’m pretty sure the scale indicates more men than women commit suicide the further up you go. That being said, it is not a very good graph, and also doesn’t show total numbers, which would be interesting to see.

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        7 months ago

        I’m pretty sure that green goes from 0 to 1, i.e. from 0 male suicides to suicide parity.

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          7 months ago

          That would be correct. There are clearer ways that the data could have been displayed

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        Yeah the graph is pretty bad. I had to actually think about it and still got it wrong.

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      7 months ago

      For every female suicide, zero males commit suicide! Hooray! /s

      In Greenland there was 1 polar bear attack per female suicide.

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        In Greenland there was 1 polar bear attack per female suicide.

        I choose that this infers someone’s lover killed themselves after they died from a polar bear.