{"id":15537,"date":"2011-10-28T20:51:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T00:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=15537"},"modified":"2011-10-30T21:30:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:30:51","slug":"pondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/28\/pondering\/","title":{"rendered":"pondering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">After the second email about the female suicide statistics, I gave in to the temptation and parsed out the age groups so they could be seen more clearly. First, the spaghetti, then the deconstructed version:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"339\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/suicides-women-unparsed.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"167\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/suicides-women-parsed.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Here, for comparison, are the men [again note the y-axis scale differences between men and women]:    <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/suicides-men-unparsed.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/suicides-men-parsed.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">I don&#8217;t know what has cut the elderly suicide rate almost in half in both men and women, but the intriguing timeline to me is the adult and middle-aged women. Whatever the case, there&#8217;s the data laid out for pondering or some graduate student in search of a topic&#8230;<\/div>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div align=\"justify\">However, the male\/female ratio looks constant over time, so my question of a difference seems to evaporate. It was a scale artifact I suppose&#8230;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/suicide-79-07-male-female.gif\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the second email about the female suicide statistics, I gave in to the temptation and parsed out the age groups so they could be seen more clearly. First, the spaghetti, then the deconstructed version: Here, for comparison, are the men [again note the y-axis scale differences between men and women]: I don&#8217;t know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15537"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15550,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions\/15550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}