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NadlesKVs t1_j9u14cu wrote

I wonder what else happened around 2020 that may have had some impact on this data?!

I can't remember anything major except the entire world being put into lockdown, but I'm sure that had no effect whatsoever on missing persons, suicide, and drug overdoses.

Probably was political...

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thehallmarkcard t1_j9vxg7z wrote

I have no dog in this politics fight but OP did use data for both suicides and life expectancy from prior to the pandemic. So your point doesn’t make sense.

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NadlesKVs t1_j9w0s3l wrote

COVID started January 10th, 2020.

Election was 11 months later.

Your point doesn’t make sense.

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thehallmarkcard t1_j9w1f2e wrote

… that’s the 2019 suicide rate and the 2018 life expectancy correlated with those election results. But yeah good call my point is the one that doesn’t make sense

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terrykrohe OP t1_j9um4po wrote

... yeah, there is the thought that 2020 was unique (some 'causative' event) and that, therefore, the data is just 'coincidental" because the non-random, top/bottom Rep/Dem pattern would not be so noticeable

BUT

Mencken did a ranking of the states in 1930 using multiple data sources and multiple metrics and Politico did so in 2014 and there was an 2022 International Economic Review paper doing a 'well-ness' survey ––– all with similar results showing the pattern (05Jan2023 post).

Ninety years, different investigators, different (mostly) metics: same results ...

... go figure

I think you are right: "probably political" ... finding the metrics which would define "political" ... now there is a quest

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