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Age Distribution of Hospital Visits Due to Punching Walls (lemmy.world)
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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Hear me out. It feels extremely good to hit walls sometimes.

You can feel its response to that impact reverberate through your tissues, starting with the shock of the grit against your skin, and then hear the sound of the surface which conveys a bit about the materials and structure. Once the sound subsides you can feel the dull warmth of minor tissue damage. Etc etc.

These are a lot of sensations all at once and sometimes you just need to feel, ya know? Not a guy, and haven’t felt the urge in a while, but I get it.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago

Don't worry y'all, I'm an expert at interpreting chart data. What this tells us is that although you lose your childhood resilience over time, your wall-punching resilience increases from your teenage years through the rest of your life. By 70, you're guaranteed to be indestructible when it comes to wall punching.

[–] infectoid@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That one person at 69. Nice.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Old 69 year old: ..... STOP MAKING SEXUAL JOKES ABOUT MY AGE!!!!! ... (punches hole in wall)

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Two people at 69!? Seems like an outlier, we should remove it from the dataset.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

found the stud.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 21 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

now separate it by sex and compare it to testosterone levels at those ages

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure where the above data is from but according to the below NIH study it's about a 80% male, 20% female split. Which isn't precisely what you were looking for but can probably give you a solid basis for inference.

Also sort of interesting is that female patients were almost twice as likely to have a previously diagnosed psychiatric disease (23% of male patients and 49% of female patients). On the other hand, males were significantly more likely to have sustained a fracture (48% of the male patient and 11% of the female patients). For sure some stark contrast between the two but I don't find that particularly surprising.

What is surprising to me is that both males and female patients with previous visits for punching related injuries was about the same (23% of males and 29% of females). Would be nice to know the overlap of people with multiple punching related injuries that also have a psychiatric diagnosis, because I imagine they overlap quite heavily.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3088367/

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

Thank You

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can we see the gender spread on this?

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 86 points 1 day ago

It's already there, blue is the women

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

You wouldn't punch a wall in germany.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 40 minutes ago

Just realized that they mean colonial walls, not real ones.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Well, if you'd try hard enough, you'd end up in hospital.

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

Just recalled I punched a wall in my later teens. No damage to me. I put a poster over the hole and it was not discovered till I went away to college.

Knew a girl in college that punched the post holding up the elevated subway in NYC. She needed a cast.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 17 points 23 hours ago

I like that little last hoorah jolt at 50 for the guys to get one last swing to finish the job they started 30 years ago.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Nice

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

what's going on with 50 year olds?

[–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

My therapist once told me that there are specific times in people's life when a lot of them go somewhat "crazy" and these times differ between men and women.

  • ~14-18 years - men go into puberty and their testosterone increases which leads to them doing stupid shit
  • ~25-30 years - women get a quarter life crisis and make radical changes
  • ~40-45 years - women are more confident and know better what they want and make drastic changes
  • ~50-55 years - men get what people call a midlife crisis and again start doing stupid shit
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's a good round number to trigger a crisis that you're getting old. Better start punching things to prove them all wrong.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

if you havent achieved enough goals by then you're pretty much not going to. you also suddenly become invisible to the sexual market of youngers.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

At 51 you realize you can't punch things any more without severely affecting your hands for the rest of your life

[–] MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

That's just Angry Bob skewing the figures.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Younger wall punchers don't have the foresight to put on protective gloves smh.

[–] gutter564@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's me. Le Poisson.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 4 hours ago

Le poisson, le poisson, how I love le poisson!

  • Odo
[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After 64, most people are too weak to punch walls.

Except Angry Jimmy and his walker.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Not to mention the 6, 7 and 8 year olds

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

That spike at 29... Your twenty-sonething boyfriend or girlfriend leaving you for somebody with more red further down the scale.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Nice spike at 50.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago

It's just like I've been saying, people turn 19 and there like, na bra, I'm chill.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago

I wanna see this corrolated to penis size. I expect a huge spike on the last one.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Teenagers punching walls is one of them thing that's more reflective of parenting than anything else IMHO

[–] null@slrpnk.net 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You're not a parent, are you?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 16 hours ago

Comment above is based on what I saw during my school years ;)