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Male to female suicide ratio by country (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why? The red and orange are close in color, otherwise it shows if it is green in color, more women commit suicide than men, then the ratio goes up by color

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If it is green then they have the same average right? 1:1. But in this graph it would be difficult to show when more women committed suicide, which might nowhere be the case.

Or you'd get 0.5 with a color match, for example.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Women literally never commit suicide at the same rate or less, that's kind of the point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ok, but if you (me) didn't know that coming into this, you'd be confused why it only scaled one way. I would've figured there's at least some parts of the world where women had higher rates than men.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You needed to explain that for it to make sense

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the point of the color bar on the bottom, a part of any good graph

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The color bar means nothing without any label.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

The numbers, right there on the bar, and the text at the top of the image.

"male to female suicide ratio" and then the numbers 1-10, it even explains that it's (men's suicides / women's suicides) so anyone who doesn't know what a ratio is can enjoy as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

1: same number of men and women
2: twice as many men, as women
3: three times as many... Etc
x: x times as many men

Does this help?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It does but if it was good it wouldn’t need an explanation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The title explains it... If it isn't clear by that, it explains what that means in the text below. That my explanation was necessary is not really the fault of the infographic

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I disagree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I agree with the OP. You're bad at reading graphs, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Apparently I’m not the only one since this thread was started by someone else who was confused. And should you have to be good at reading graphs to understand one? They should present the information in a clear easy to understand manner. This failed at that.