Suicidology Data and Evidence

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August 2023

Canadian pediatric suicide rates have plummeted 20% since the pandemic
Canadian Mortality Data is finally out for 2021, confirming huge decreases in suicide for Canadian kids
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Tyler Black, MD
Hand-me-down suicide: Suicide & Birth Order
One of the lesser known suicide facts: younger siblings have higher suicide rates
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Tyler Black, MD
THE NEW YORK TIMES HATES THIS ARTICLE
The problem with year-over-year reporting (clickbait headline, intentionally ironic)
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Tyler Black, MD
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America's Gun Problem [Infographic]
The proliferation and ubiquity of guns in the US is truly a sight to behold
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Tyler Black, MD

June 2023

Age Stratification: 2022 US Suicide Data
We have enough preliminary data to make calls on significant increases or decreases in 2022
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Tyler Black, MD
The Tsunami of Pediatric Suicides that Wasn't
With the latest data to November 2022 in the US, we can predict with high confidence that the rates during the pandemic did not increase, but actually…
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Tyler Black, MD
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Peer-Reviewed Commentary is out
"School closures, the pandemic, and pediatric mental health: Scrutinizing the evidence"
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Tyler Black, MD

May 2023

The problem with predicting suicide
An introduction to testing metrics and to why no tool in existence can accurately predict suicide
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Tyler Black, MD
Canadian Suicide Rates during the pandemic
Statistics Canada preliminary data shows a sharp decrease, and government spending may be why
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Tyler Black, MD
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Mythbusting Suicide: The Ages of Suicide
Statistics fail to demonstrate that suicide is "more common in kids and the elderly"
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Tyler Black, MD
Top 5 mistakes in suicide risk assessment
Brainless errors and their thoughtful fixes
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Tyler Black, MD
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