= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
taw comments on The Dirt on Depression - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (17)
São Tomé and Príncipe too, but it's probably small sample effect.
But Chinese data surprises me - I would have guessed that skewed gender ratio would work to advantage of women, but the result is the opposite, so it must be something else going on.
Or are men just less competent at that? Googling says they make more suicide attempts:
I've read that, in the U.S., women make more suicide attempts than men, but are more likely to survive them, because men tend to use more lethal methods. (Women are less likely to try to kill themselves using a gun, for example.)
According to that article and some others most suicide attempts in China are unplanned and involve self-poisoning. Perhaps men having larger bodies are less likely to succeed.
So I wonder how much cross-country variability is about variability in suicide attempt rates, and how much due to different techniques used.