I grew up in one of the "no data" counties in the North East. My neighbor committed suicide 30 years ago or so. There, now there is data.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2024
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That's such an oddly specific north to south multi-state swath of No Data that I'd easily believe there was something going on with that particular longitude, even though that's a completely insane thing to imagine.
The tornadoes get you before the depression does
I went to highschool in Utah, every year we had at least one assembly about suicide prevention. We had more depending on if a suicide happened in one of the counties nearby. Not one for each since that would have taken a while.
There was a month or two where there were like six pretty rapid fire and one by a student at our school. We’d already had an assembly pretty recently, so they didn’t have another one. It was a very quiet week, but then everything went back to normal, as always.
Anyway if you’re wondering why it’s that bad in the Great Basin region of the US the answer is Mormonism, and lack of education/resources especially in rural areas.
The assemblies I mentioned weren’t “this is how you can deal with things” they were “no one in their right mind would do this, suicide and thinking about it is weak and stupid so stop” or they were “god doesn’t want you to die” neither were effective.
Then again I wouldn’t expect effective solutions from people who are the problem. Not sure any amount of words from men who use “gay” and “queer” as an insult would help queer kids feel like living in that hell was better than death.
Oh and if anyone is wondering, this was less than a decade ago, not in the very distant past. I think most of the staff in my highschool are still the same, and the majority of the residents in the town certainly haven’t moved, physically or “spiritually.” Honestly, with the trump rhetoric they’ve probably gotten worse.
you had assembly? Last year a girl committed and the school literally did jack squat. Nothing on announcements, no meeting, I don't think they even did a social media post. It was pretty maddening for me but nobody else seemed to care.
Why did they make the “no data” color nearly identical to the low value of the range? And yet there are still counties marked grey, which is what they should have picked for missing data.
I'm colorblind and the low end and high end look exactly the same to me .
I am curious about the source for this. Very strange and unhelpful.
Seems to be a multifactoral type of correlation. Poverty, race and population density all playing parts.
This one’s not just a population density map in disguise, is it?
No, it's per capita.
I wonder how many of those dark red are over native reservations...
Edit: Almost the same areas.
Yeah =(
The map tracks with high American Indian and White populations.
They usually include drug overdoses as suicide on these statistics, so it makes sense that Nevada and other rural areas are so red.
I’m having trouble with the colors. It tornado alley low rate or no data. TBH either of those would seem weird for the area.
The darker color in tornado alley is green for "no data", which is odd, but I assume it's similar to the darker orange and red around it.
Hilarious to see my county is an orange dot in a large swath of green. We’ve got just high enough a population that you REALLY notice there’s nothing to do.
How are things in Colby, Kansas these days?
you’re close enough that you might as well be right hahaha
They hate the midwest
Who cares? They are mostly men... /s
Okay as an European, I finally understand why they say "west is best"