[OC] Suicide Rate vs GDP per capita for various countries. Notice that the upper right triangle is almost empty i.e. generally increase in GDP per capita results in decrease in suicide rates.jwd1066 t1_isixjvg wrote
Reply to comment by denseplan in [OC] Suicide Rate vs GDP per capita for various countries. Notice that the upper right triangle is almost empty i.e. generally increase in GDP per capita results in decrease in suicide rates. by ankuprk
Ya, the 'the aren't any outliers of type x' type of "analysis" using scales just isn't really a thing.
ankuprk OP t1_isj4d1n wrote
Yeah this is pretty much what I wanted to say: very high income countries don't have very high suicide rates.
jwd1066 t1_isnccvz wrote
But practically speaking, they do. The US has comparatively high income and high suicide rates. More than Double Mexico in both, so the relationship between the two points doesn't have much meaning. It just happens there is no data point outlier in the chart's upper right of these two metrics if scaled this way.
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