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nicklebro posted...

Ok. So do you have anything of substance to add that's relevant to the discussion or are you once again resorting to ad hominem attacks and trolling to avoid admitting you're wrong?

Because there's no other way for me to take this post than an immature poster refusing to concede a point. Idk what statistics course you think exists that would ever give us the insight into the human mind to tell us the exact statistics for what causes our behavior. I mean I keep laughing at you for thinking a statistics course would even help in this situation but you don't seem to have realized how silly that logic is.

I never stated that the statistics would give causality (though, there are several forms of statistics that try to get at this, structural equation modelling for data like this and granger causality analysis for time based data), but parse out the independent contributions of each factor to the increased suicide risk.

This statistical logic is the same type that is used when they found that the gender pay gap is largely driven by differences in career choices and other behavior.
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