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altero | 12 years ago

OK. Let's do the stats.

Men are 95% of homeless, 90% of prisoners, 95% workplace deaths, 80% suicides...

In second case:

I went unnecessary offensive, call it "most women cry for help" whatever.

The fact is that people who are at risk of suicidal behavior are equally distributed between genders [1]. Also mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are equally distributed [wikipedia].

So I see two options why women have much higher suicidal attempt rate:

- it is a cry for help

- men suicide attempts are under reported

[1] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9501750

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dang|12 years ago

Gender trolling is not welcome on Hacker News. Repeated, off-topic gender trolling is particularly unwelcome. Please do not do this again.