Missing the point, the line, and the plane
Linked via RCS, an interesting correlation that seems to hold up across nations.

When he arrived, the suicide rates in his new home made him wonder: Was there something about the elevation that was affecting the way the brain functioned?

His theory didn’t catch on until he and his colleagues published a 2011 paper that looked at all 2,584 counties in the U.S. and found a correlation between average altitude and suicide rate over the previous 20 years. They found that if a county was below 2,000 feet, their suicide rates were about half of counties at 4,000 to 5,000 feet. The counties with the highest suicide rates were above 9,000 feet.

A subsequent study attempted to control for the other factors commonly thought to influence suicide rates, like gun ownership, poverty, availability of psychiatric care, population density, and health insurance status. Renshaw said they still found that altitude was an independent risk factor, calling the correlation “whoppingly strong.” Since then, there have been multiple studies that showed the same association, both on state and county levels. Similar findings have been reported in Spain, South Korea, and Austria.

Within the US, the pattern of suicide by county associates obviously and blatantly with two factors: Native tribes and post-industrial areas. If the "social" "scientists" think they've factored out poverty and status, they're missing the WHOLE FUCKING POINT of human perception. As fucking always.

Perception is a VECTOR, a differential. Perception measures DISTANCE between here and there, and TIME between now and then.

When everyone you see is poor, and you have always been poor, you don't feel poor.

When everyone you see is low status, and you have always been low status with no delusions or hopes of raising status, you don't feel low status.

Since "social" "scientists" do not know what LIFE is, they must assume an INORGANIC and INANIMATE cause for living behavior. So these "social" "scientists" assume that lack of oxygen is the cause. If we were discussing suicides among boiling pots of water, this would be a good explanation. But we are not discussing suicides among boiling pots of water. We are discussing suicides among LIVING humans.


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How does altitude relate to status? Simple and universal. High status people seek high altitude. Low status people seek low altitude, or are forced down by high status people. If you're a low status person in a high altitude area, the difference between internal template and external senses is extreme. You feel your lowness much more sharply. And if you move INTO a high-status area, the vector is both spatial and temporal.

Around half of people who died by suicide had moved to Montana from other states, making space for a theory that a shift from low to high elevations was a risk factor. ... People shared anecdotes of lives lost to suicide in their families, sometimes occurring shortly after moves to higher elevation.

How do Injuns and post-industrial areas connect? Reservations are concentrated in mountain states and HILLbillies live in the HILLS. In this case altitude may be incidental. The relevant vector here is long-standing loss of usefulness. For Injuns, the reservation busted up a strong culture where everyone had a place and purpose. For Hillbillies, the destruction of industry removed all utility.

LIFE IS PURPOSE.


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Speculative: Bridge jumping is a popular means of suicide here in Spokane. A quick way of relieving the tension of misfit altitude, nulling out the differential.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Blinded by Stats

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