Is Wikipedia’s definition wrong?

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Oct 6, 2022
11:02:20am

RevolutionDeathsquad All-American

Is Wikipedia’s definition wrong?

“Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.”

"Men disproportionately commit suicide? Must be toxic masculinity."

Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when they interpret ambiguous...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

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RevolutionDeathsquad

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Time

Can you guess the % of suicides in Utah that involve a teen victim?

Soupie Grandma Sycamore

10/5/22 8:29pm

What a fun game?

Courtimedes

10/5/22 8:30pm

20%? I think older males with chronic illness are the highest demo IIRC

EQD2

10/5/22 8:30pm

50%

KingDave

10/5/22 8:32pm

Whatever it is, it is too high.

crack

10/5/22 8:34pm

Of course. Any is too many.

Soupie

10/5/22 8:39pm

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Mikey

10/5/22 8:36pm

Answer: May be surprised.

Soupie

10/5/22 8:44pm

I’m surprised indeed. I thought I was guessing high, but didn’t think I was so far off.

KingDave

10/5/22 9:14pm

The suicide rate rate regardless of demographic is effectively 0.

snowbird

10/5/22 8:45pm

Expound

Dataguy

10/5/22 9:45pm

I think he just means that, every year, 0.0014% of Americans die by suicide.

Zooropa

10/5/22 10:47pm

I get it, but first, it's 0.014% of US, which is 1.75% of all deaths

Dataguy

10/6/22 6:50am

Absolutely. I'm with you.

Zooropa

10/6/22 6:53am

Hope everyone knows my purpose is not to brush aside. I feel we sometimes get hyper focused on youth

Soupie

10/6/22 7:08am

I think that we implicitly consider a teen suicide to be more tragic than the suicide of an adult (we value and protect

dilbert

10/6/22 10:10am

Absolutely and I think that's an appropriate expectation given the age & maturity. Just unexpected & teasing through

Soupie

10/6/22 11:05am

Looks like it is the leading cause of death of those 10 to 24

Baron

10/5/22 8:48pm

That's true but wasn't the question.

Soupie

10/5/22 8:52pm

Seems like a more important question. We shouldn't diminish it at all.

joelvandyne

10/6/22 9:18am

You're welcome to address that in your own OP. I was doing some research & this stat stood out as unexpected.

Soupie

10/6/22 9:28am

What are you researching? Will you share the results with CB when you are done?

10/6/22 9:39am

Adolescent suicide prevention. And no.

Soupie

10/6/22 9:40am

That's too bad. Hope you uncover useful approaches for that.

10/6/22 9:44am

People need to stop calling reading a little on a topic “doing research”

spinner

10/6/22 10:42am

Or people w/ degrees & licenses don’t have time or interest in having the internet peanut gallery

Soupie

10/6/22 10:53am

I encourage you to reconsider. Patiently engaging with the internet peanut

10/6/22 11:42am

...except for when is is a licensed professional who actually does real research

The Dark Knight

10/6/22 12:05pm

Are you disputing the stat she shared?

UNLVcougar

10/6/22 12:16pm

RE: Seems like a more important question. We shouldn't diminish it at all.

Radioactive Coug

10/6/22 10:22am

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SuperTank

10/5/22 9:01pm

What % of total deaths involve a teen victim in Utah?

I'mnotacber

10/5/22 9:17pm

Not good to be a white male. Especially a middle aged white male.

10/5/22 9:20pm

The burden on their shoulders is high. The empathy for them is low. Expectations

Zooropa

10/5/22 9:44pm

Sounds like those dudes could have used a lot less toxic masculinity growing up,

joelvandyne

10/6/22 10:35am

The confirmation bias is strong here …

RevolutionDeathsquad

10/6/22 10:44am

Or I just understand what the term really means instead of what Tucker Carlson

joelvandyne

10/6/22 10:48am

Is Wikipedia’s definition wrong?

RevolutionDeathsquad

10/6/22 11:02am

If you wanted to prove you understood the argument being made you linked the

joelvandyne

10/6/22 11:10am

See step 1 in managing your own curated reality was to selectively

RevolutionDeathsquad

10/6/22 11:10am

You are assigning to me positions that I did not take and think that by taking

joelvandyne

10/6/22 11:33am

I come to CB for all takes, even the bad ones.

UNLVcougar

10/6/22 12:17pm

Or, a society wanting to blame all ills on them, regardless of the individuals

Spine

10/6/22 1:07pm

Too many

unctoothman

10/6/22 10:58am

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