February 6, 2017

Stat of the Week Competition Discussion: February 4 – 10 2017

If you’d like to comment on or debate any of this week’s Stat of the Week nominations, please do so below!

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    Megan Pledger

    It probably isn’t the average across the age groups but total suicides/total population.

    Averaging would give a different answer because the number of people in each age group is different.

    I have a minor quibble with that graph. I find myself comparing genders rates from different age groups because their bars are closer together then the rates of genders of the same age group.

    7 years ago