"we also incorrectly stated that youth were the only group to have an increase when in fact they did not increase and another age group did."
"Final mortality shows that there was no significant change in youth suicide statistics between 2019 to 2020."
But now, for whatever reason, suicides are so unimportant to you. When "suicides increased" they were a main point on your summary slides as well as in your mental health slides.
Now that we know that suicides did not increase, they have simply disappeared as important.
Now why would it be that suicides would be important when they increased and not important when they did not increase?
Increase = crucial. Summary stuff
No increase = let's not talk about suicide, let's talk "whole kid"
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RE: #UrgencyOfNormal (sorry for drama, have to get this off my brain & move on)
@drscottbalsitis and I had an excellent chat, & I meant every word I said in my tweet about him. I'm glad he edited some slides, but it's still woefully one-sided. The grade went from F to INC
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Genuinely, I liked him and we got along. This fellow is, like me, ultimately a geek about science. You'll note I occasionally tweet, advocate, and even make fancy slides/graphs about areas outside of my expertise too!
I've sent him good data and trust he will process.
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But there is a turn, and my issue is less with him. And trust me, it may sound this way but this isn't an insult to his abilities.
He's not uni-affiliated or an appointed academic.
I hold the academics to a different standard. I don't care to mention their names anymore.
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We incorrectly reported the # of suicides, and stated they had increased from 2019, and stated that children were the only group to show an increase. This is inaccurate. According to CDC Wonder, the final mortality statistics for 2020 show that suicides in children..
did not increase, and in fact, our original citation did not reflect what was in the document, as we incorrectly stated the children were the only group that raised, the citation is clear that "only the 5% increase for those aged 25-34".
Challenge #1 to test to see if #urgencyofnormal cares about reporting data accurately.
The woefully biased MH slides of the doc cites Racine, yet Robinson studies same period, includes kids, comes to a different conclusion. Highlights limitations.
"There was a high degree of unexplained heterogeneity observed (I2s > 90%), indicating that change in mental health was highly variable across samples."
Responsible people reporting the data would include BOTH metaanalyses, not select one.
More challenges coming soon. Have sent this plus 2 others to authors directly.
Q: If I presented this graph to claim that "the pandemic, and high school closure reduced suicides in Canadian students," what is the LARGEST error I'd be making?
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Here were the responses and the distribution. I'm going to go by "least right" answers first, and hopefully you can learn about statistical interpretation and youth suicidology at the same time.
Caution: math involved
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❌C: "The change was within fluctuation seen year to year" - True, but more an error in interpretation...
Each fluctuation could or could not be due to any number of factors, and combining sexes, this WAS the 2nd-3rd largest drop.
Someone sent this to me earnestly, but, honestly, if it weren't convincing parents to not vaccinate their kids :(
To someone with a medical background and actually...you know... Relevant statistical and educational experience... All of these comments laughable.
Sigh.
My spit take moment
Vaccinating children who got control (100% of enrolled parents wanted their children to get vaccinated! It was a voluntary study!) is supremely ethical. Vaccines save lives even covid vaccines and youngest lives. This awful beast turns the **best decision of the RCT** into evil.
Imagine me, a suicidologist, tweeting this message from the incredible Jessi Gold. I have been accused personally and directly of "only caring about suicide," but this is a perfect message.
My comment: we also need to de-psychiatricize suicide and make it a societal problem
I am both a suicidologist AND a child and youth mental health advocate. Sometimes the venn diagram of what i'm doing is circular, other times disconnected. Mental health conflation with suicide is SOCIETIES prolem and I want to DECREASE that.
When people talk about "mental health" and then put up a suicide graph, it makes me wanna puke. Suicide is multiply-complex, and only 50% of people who die by suicide have any diagnosable mental illness (sorry advocates, yer wrong)