• Hyacin (He/Him)@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      Yeah kinda silly, I mean the post title even is about “interesting data” - true or false, the data is interesting. What is the point of downvoting something literally just showing published data?! If you think the data is false/misleading/etc./etc./etc., that doesn’t take away from it being “interesting”, if anything it makes it more “interesting”, so how about stopping in and talking about it instead of just drive-by downvoting??

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      4 months ago

      If you have evidence that it’s greater or lesser in any of these states, then please, share. Otherwise, this is just a non-falsifiable claim.

      • Robin@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        4 months ago

        No I do not have good data. But neither does OP.

        • There is no international standard on what should be counted as suicide
        • Even if there was, reporting quality would be very different between cultures and rural vs urban environments
        • I think statistics coming fron authoritarian regimes are not trustworthy (I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to categorize which states are authoritarian)
        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          4 months ago

          This is more dodging the points raised than addressing them. You have proposed reasons for why the data may not be as accurate as possible, but that only prompts further investigation, not closing the book entirely. Further, all states are “authoritarian,” and no state wants to report a high suicide rate, so that isn’t a reasonable counter. Until the state withers away, it’s better for workers to have control of that authority.

  • Archer@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    4 months ago

    It’s funny when .ml actually encounters real people who downvote their bullshit