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| Seriously? |
This is U.S. data on suicides and homicides from 2001 to 2013. The correlation between those two lines is -.96! It's an almost perfect negative correlation. Homicide rate is dropping, hurrah! But suicide rate is climbing, as if compensating for the decline in homicides. The suicide rate increased 18% just as the homicide rate dropped by 20%.
Could those psychodynamic guys have been onto something?
| Suicide | Homicide | |
| Suicide | 1.00 | |
| Homicide | -0.96 | 1.00 |
2001
|
10.7
|
5.6
|
2002
|
10.9
|
5.6
|
2003
|
10.8
|
5.7
|
2004
|
11
|
5.5
|
2005
|
10.9
|
5.6
|
2006
|
11
|
5.7
|
2007
|
11.3
|
5.6
|
2008
|
11.6
|
5.4
|
2009
|
11.7
|
5
|
2010
|
12.1
|
4.8
|
2011
|
12.3
|
4.7
|
2012
|
12.5
|
4.7
|
2013
|
12.6
|
4.5
|
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