Not sure if this is the right place, but I thought you guys would appreciate this. Women are twice as likely to attempt suicide, but men are three times as likely to succeed. Someone on iFunny didn't believe me.

antilopes · 2018-12-29T21:01:33+00:00

Women do not attempt suicide more often than men. That stat comes from the cdc, here is a cdc page https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicide-datasheet-a.pdf

if you follow the sources indicated by the little superscripts on the end of some of them you can find studies like

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6304a1.htm

where you can see that this data was all self reported on surveys.

Data Collection Procedures and Questionnaires Survey procedures for the national, state, and large urban school district surveys were designed to protect students' privacy by allowing for anonymous and voluntary participation. Before survey administration, local parental permission procedures were followed. Students completed the self-administered questionnaire during one class period and recorded their responses directly on a computer-scannable booklet or answer sheet. CDC's Institutional Review Board approved the protocol for the national YRBS.

The 2013 YRBS standard questionnaire contained 86 questions. For the national questionnaire, the following six questions were added to the standard questionnaire: ever use of hallucinogenic drugs, tested for HIV, participation in muscle strengthening activities, routine sunscreen use, indoor tanning device use, and number of hours of sleep on an average school night. Because these questions are only on the national questionnaire, state and large urban school district data are not available for any variables based on these questions. In addition to four demographic questions and two questions assessing height and weight, the remaining questions on the standard questionnaire and the national questionnaire measured behaviors practiced or experienced by the student (referred to as "behaviors"). States and large urban school districts could add and/or delete questions from the standard questionnaire. Skip patterns, which occur when a particular response to one question indicates to the respondents that they should not answer one or more subsequent questions, were not included in any YRBS questionnaire to protect students' privacy by ensuring all students took about the same amount of time to complete the questionnaire. For state and large urban school districts, only data from standard questions are presented in this report. Information about the reliability of the standard questionnaire has been published elsewhere (8). The standard and national YRBS questionnaires are available at http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/questionnaire_rationale.htm.

when people look at t the way these stats are presented it is easy to forget - we are comparing a stack of dead male bodies to the self reported suicide attempts of still living female presenting persons.

Men-Are-Human · 2018-12-29T19:13:05+00:00

Not keen on the name calling. It dents your credibility.

Clemicus · 2018-12-30T00:18:24+00:00

I'm under the impression the statistics behind the first claim is wrong: figures for self-harm with no intend to commit suicide being included under attempted suicide.

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