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jwd1066 t1_isecile wrote

Reply to comment by denseplan in [OC] Suicide Rate vs GDP per capita for various countries. Notice that the upper right triangle is almost empty i.e. generally increase in GDP per capita results in decrease in suicide rates. by ankuprk

Useful how? there are only 8 candidate countries in the lower right, and only three in the upper left.

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denseplan t1_isecqro wrote

I agree it's weak.

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jwd1066 t1_isixjvg wrote

Ya, the 'the aren't any outliers of type x' type of "analysis" using scales just isn't really a thing.

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ankuprk OP t1_isj4d1n wrote

Yeah this is pretty much what I wanted to say: very high income countries don't have very high suicide rates.

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jwd1066 t1_isnccvz wrote

But practically speaking, they do. The US has comparatively high income and high suicide rates. More than Double Mexico in both, so the relationship between the two points doesn't have much meaning. It just happens there is no data point outlier in the chart's upper right of these two metrics if scaled this way.

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jwd1066 t1_isixyjs wrote

Oh ya, and they give as much weighting to tiny countries as they do to large ones ugh

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ankuprk OP t1_isj490m wrote

I think equal weighing is okay, because we have everything in per capita?

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jwd1066 t1_isnbvpy wrote

It's a 'by country' chart The data points forming the "relationship" are still weighted by country, each country is one datapoint. So in the visualisation suicide/gdp by capita for the US, has as much influence on the observed relationship as suicide/gdp for Barbados. Even though Barbados is less than 1/600th the size.

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