Is the fact that suicide rates in the US have been rising steadily over the last two decades and are now at the highest point in the last 80 years also rosy retrospection?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/11/29/2022-suic...
don't be daft.
> Is the fact that suicide rates in the US have been rising steadily over the last two decades and are now at the highest point in the last 80 years also rosy retrospection?
i'll attempt to make my position clear one final time: i don't accept any of your premises as fact. not about the reason/s behind rates of suicide (who that's actually committed suicide can tell us why they did?), nor the statistical measurement thereof for that matter. not about rates of homework assignment nor "home range" nor "relative freedom of movement" nor the degree of parenting... intensity? none of it.
again, these 'phenomena', let's call them for the sake of argument, in my opinion, are not convincingly nor reliably quantifiable. you are also entitled to your own opinion, whether based on the opinions of others or conceived of yourself. but we should be careful when branding something as fact just because someone else has assigned some contrived numbers to their own unprovable opinion.
Your example premise of "the reasons for suicide", is not something I ever proposed. I never attempted to explain the reason for the increase. I simply posted an article showing that the suicide rate has increased over the last couple decades, since you kept blanketing everything prior as "rosy retrospection". Do you not believe that the suicide rate has increased over the last two decades?
> Do you not believe that the suicide rate has increased over the last two decades?
per capita (assuming that's what you mean), that's correct. i do not.
we should stop now. very unproductive exchange.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779141, citing https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/11/29/2022-suic...