Comments on: Politicizing Suicide in soldiers: the spin and the reality http://www.bloggernews.net/19471 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:34:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: N Johnson http://www.bloggernews.net/19471#comment-76858 N Johnson Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:50:49 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19471#comment-76858 Many good points, but for the analysis to be correct, you also need to include ethnicity, beacuse: "White Non-Hispanic (NH) crude suicide rate 2.3 times greater than Black NH rate", etc. So the number you quote of the suicide rate of "young civilian men is 20.5" needs to be adjusted because of the difference in ethnicity in the general young population and the services. Check out: http://www.defenselink.mil/prhome/poprep2001/chapter2/c2_raceth.htm Interestingly the higher minority fraction in the military reduces the suicide rate for comparison from the general population. Hence the original conclusions in the press are more likely correct. Many good points, but for the analysis to be correct, you also need to include ethnicity, beacuse: “White Non-Hispanic (NH) crude suicide rate 2.3 times greater than Black NH rate”, etc.

So the number you quote of the suicide rate of “young civilian men is 20.5″ needs to be adjusted because of the difference in ethnicity in the general young population and the services. Check out: http://www.defenselink.mil/prhome/poprep2001/chapter2/c2_raceth.htm

Interestingly the higher minority fraction in the military reduces the suicide rate for comparison from the general population. Hence the original conclusions in the press are more likely correct.

]]> By: peabody3000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19471#comment-75730 peabody3000 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:25:03 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19471#comment-75730 the war is still a bu$h criminal enterprise perpetrated with endless lies, no matter what the military suicide rate is the war is still a bu$h criminal enterprise perpetrated with endless lies, no matter what the military suicide rate is

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