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terrykrohe OP t1_jddyrpe wrote

Reply to [OC] police killings VS suicide rate – 2020 election by terrykrohe

other comments for "police killings VS suicide"

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... there is a non-random, top/bottom, RepDem pattern in the "police killings" data and in the suicide data.
This pattern has been seen in previous posts: GDP (posted 06May2021), state+local ed spending (posted 20May2021), suicide rate (13May2021), state taxes (posted 17Jun2021), opioid dispensing rate (01Jul2021), life expectancy (29Jul2021), infant mortality (05Aug2021), incarceration rate (posted 19Aug2021)
,... only 'missing persons' (posted 28Oct221) showed randomness
... drug overdose deaths (posted 23Feb2023) was 50/50 random/non-random probability

... always, the Rep states were on the negative side of the metric: less GDP, less ed spending, more suicides, lower state taxes, more opioids dispensed, shorter life expectancy, more infant mortality, higher incarceration rates.

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Suicides correlate strongly with gun ownership (posted 02Mar2023)
– Rep correlation, impact value = 42,100; Dem correlation, impact value = 27,500
now, suicides correlate more strongly with police killings than with gun ownership
– Rep correlation, impact value = 71,600; Dem correlation, impact value = 962,800
(... curious that Dem states have a much stronger police killings/suicide correlation than Rep states)

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There is a "rationale" that 'explains' the suicide/gun ownership correlation: gun availability.
What rationale would explain the police killings VS suicide data?

(" a coincidence"? nah, "... there are no coincidences," says Detective)

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LongLastingStick t1_jddyou4 wrote

Reply to comment by Northman67 in Comparison of Star Trek Series by IMBD Ratings [OC] by insaneplane

Fair enough. I like the last season and wish there was another, it felt like it was really on the upswing. Shran as a regular? Yes please.

The xindi arc had its moments but overall just a worse Dominion.

My most recent rewatch takeaway was that T’Pol really carried the first seasons despite the insistence on her eye candy. Then the writers screw up her character and side line her at the end.

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Strong_Cheetah_7989 t1_jddxru6 wrote

Reply to Why California is still in drought despite heavy rain and snow by bogdanelcs

The problem is there's less storage capacity than in the 70s due to dam demolition and no new reservoirs, despite being funded in 2014. In abnormally wet years, like 2022-2023, excess water floods communities and washes into the ocean. This is entirely on the shoulders of progressive legislators and the procession of governors in the state that kowtow to the whims of a few conservation groups who would like nothing better than for California to lose half its population.

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terrykrohe OP t1_jddxmf3 wrote

Reply to [OC] police killings VS suicide rate – 2020 election by terrykrohe

sources

police killings, US
– https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
suicide rate
– https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/suicide.htm

tool: Mathematica

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– the dashed lines are the means; the 'boxes' are ± one standard deviation (SD) from the mean
– the parenthetical percent is the "relative standard deviation" (RSD)
– for the bottom plot
...red/blue lines represent the 'best-fit' through the Rep/Dem states' data points; the states' coordinate points are colored according to the 2020 Electoral College vote
– the ellipses are centered on the Rep/Dem means; the standard deviations are represented by the ellipses' axes

"Statistic" is the "Pearson r-value
"the r-value is a measure of the "strength" of the correlation;
the p-value is the probability that the r-value represents random fluctuations of the data (that is, a small p-value would characterize non-random data)

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