#Death rates

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[kalashni-cola]

Lets go..

@Shithead... no that's not right, @usefulidiot? Eeeeeeh @jamielovesjam since I have to.

Where to start..

Age of majority

The age of majority refers to the age at which an individual will be legally considered an adult. It is the age at which one will be subject to the full legal rights and responsibilities of an adult, including the right to vote, the right to join the military or the right to sign a contract. After reaching the age of majority, one will become fully responsible for their own actions, contractual obligations and other undertakings. Parental duties of support will also cease.  It is important to note that the age of majority does not necessarily conflate with the drinking age, smoking age, driving age, voting age, age of sexual consent, marriageable age etc. These will also vary from state by state and country by country. United States: 18/19/21* Netherlands: 18 United Kingdom: 21 Austria: 19 Sweden: 18 Canada: 18/19* Australia: 18 Switzerland: 20 Germany: 18 Japan: 18 France: 21 Belgium: 18 (Countries based on stupid purple circle graph by the US. SG office) (**Alabama and Mississippi being weird and some Canadian territories) The age of majority is 18 years in almost all OECD countries (Table PF1.8 A). (That's a official pdf) https://www.oecd.org/ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Oh and yes I did spell that right. They can't get their copyright right yeesh)

General consensus among most people is that at 18 you are an adult, Uncle Sam says you're old enough to be drafted at 18. The World Health Organization is a United Nations political tool that does not have a great track record at all. The UN/WHO have no say in US politics or policies at the end of the day.

Relative frequencies are often used to inform the general population instead of experts and they have some advantages for this use case:

relative frequencies always allow for integers instead of fractions, which is useful if the variable of interest only makes sense in integer format (e.g. 0.5 out of 100 humans or 0.3 out of 100 births is not helpful). If the occurrence is very low (say 1 in a million), percentages are also not pretty (0.0001%)

relative frequencies might be easier to visualize: 1 in 10 may make us think of 10 people we know; 10% is rather abstract. As Greg Snow pointed out, relative frequencies have a relation to the real world. If 100 000 people live in my city, 85/100 000 is easier to grasp.

there is actually also scientific theory about this, the "frequency format hypothesis": "The frequency format hypothesis is the idea that the brain understands and processes information better when presented in frequency formats rather than a numerical or probability format." (from Wikipedia)

and, finally, percentages are sometimes given without a reference class (% of what?)

So when you proclaim 36.4 per 1m with your purple graph, that's 0.00364% chance of death between your chosen demographic.

0.00364%* 1 in 15,300 people has a better chance of getting hit by lighting. (according to News Nation) That's 0.00653%**

See, pretty interesting how its not much of a difference in percentages but the numbers are widely different.

(I'll add the source of that 36.4 per 1m here (at least the Office of the USSG spelled the organization correctly, I'll give them that.)

I mean there is also the whole PDF by them.. You know so people can read the whole thing on which this data pieced from. before we dig into that PDF, lets go to the Unified Crime Report (UCR) from the FBI, our favorite Table 8.

I want to you look at these numbers carefully. Total homicides for 2019, 13,927 - The FBI include suicides in these statistics for the UCR, as suicide is typically recorded as a homicide/murder. Lets go over to the mess I like to call the "Crime Data Explorer", this is the new administration trying to be edgy for no reason with their data. Data set to the same year 2019.

That's 6,618 uses of weapons in a homicide. A little different than the 13,927 from the UCR. Lets go over to Table 9 You might like this because of the age brackets. Important to note we're still at 13,927 victims.

669 victims of homicide under the age of 18, and if you want to be semantic, 1,462 deaths of 19 and under. Some would think "Wow that's a big leap!" 17-19 account for a massive jump from 270 to 1,042. Most can and would attribute that to gang violence. Now lets jump to the new CDE.

1,048 victims 19 and below. Pretty close but no cigar to the UCR this time. Wondering where I'm going with this ey? Well there hasn't been a new UCR out since 2019. And quiet frankly the CDE is horrible to interact with and considering the variables I've found in it, I'd find them not very accurate. But if I would..

If we believe the CDE trend wise homicide is down, minus since 2020 its spiked a really shitty border might be a reason for that but I digress. (that means gun violence is as well by the way but otherwise down.) And if we want to look at 2022;

That's one hell of a jump if you ask me but also closer to the old UCR data though mildly increased. So in comparison the CDE does not have a good breakdown of their data into tables like the UCR. So all in all, I'd love to know where "48,204 total people died from firearm‑related injuries, including suicides, homicides, and unintentional deaths." As the PDF graphs you've give me to read. (Their number 2 source doesn't give the data they used for that quote btw) Because if they're trying to include suicides say from AFSP the say there were 27,032 suicides by firearms in 2022, but that doesn't stack well when there are suicides reported with homicide numbers in the UCR. So be it as it may. I see your PDF and I would trash it, even if it had some interesting tidbits like this;

I'd say Gang related or socioeconomic conditions may have something to do with this in urban centers and it's not necessarily a firearm issue. But anyways. Your tags are lame and there is no "etiquette of tags" on Tumblr reblogs. I tag things when they have relevance so I can find them later, or an initial post. Suck on my tags as they say.

[aikoiya]

LoZ: Wild - Master Beds & Hyrule's Possibly Declining Population

I just wanted to bring up some things that I noticed just recently.

The only double bed we see is at Hudson & Rhondson's home! Meaning the graphic for one exists, but also that, apparently, they are the only married couple in Hyrule who consistently sleep in the same bed & that's stupid!

This isn't the 1960s, ya'll! It isn't even being done for accuracy's sake! As medieval families tended to have communal beds where everyone in a house, including visitors, just sort of puppy piles together as it saves on money & resources! The idea of separate beds for couples were a product of 19th century Victorian England's bourgeoisie! So why do so many of medieval fantasy Hyrule's lower class have an average of 2 beds, 3-4 if they have kids?? Stop being cowards & at least let couples have doubles!

Families back then also had TONES of kids! Yet, the most kids that I have seen in a single settlement was 6 & that's ONLY in Gerudo Town & Hateno! Possibly Zora's Domain.

Seriously, Kakariko & Lurelin seem to only have 2 each! And now that Maddison's moved away, Terry Town ONLY HAS ONE!!

That is... Concerning compared to the number of adults that we see!

Also, why are there no babies??!! And no pregnant women!

Also, where are all the young couples???

Were they just trying to save on money or what??

Like, I get that this was made in Japan, who's population seems to be aging, so there are fewer kids with the average couple only having around 1 child per woman, so it might've been influenced by that, but that isn't normal. Because it means that the population is basically being reduced by half with each generation atm, which IS NOT a sustainable amount for a society to continue on into perpetuity!!

(A/N: Seriously, we're worried about you Japan. Get to frackin' & please try to figure out what's going on with your fertility issues. Because, then maybe we can figure out a cure for the declining population in the rest of the world too...)

Admittedly, the model variety in these games are generally pretty good. I don't think that I've seen 2 characters who look identical yet. Which is impressive!

But the models that we do see actually brings up a lot of questions as to the state of Hyrule's population as well as their birth rate vs death rate statistics.

Admittedly, it's highly likely that we just don't see everyone who actually lives in Hyrule for the sake of keeping things... compact I guess?

But it still raises questions.

LoZ Wild Masterlist

[hislop3]

Reducing MDRO Prevalence in Healthcare Facilities: The Impact of Chlorhexidine Bathing and Nasal Decolonization on Hospitalizations

I’m sure the first reaction to this title is, it’s an April Fool’s joke. This is not that. I know, I don’t really write on any deep clinical topics, for various reasons. First, I’m not qualified clinically (I read to say B.S. proof and to help my wife’s work – clinical compliance). Second, my only clinical training is the decades I’ve spent listening and learning from the clinicians I have worked…

[tiger-grace]

Bruce Wayne, being the worlds greatest detective, psychoanalyzing every teammate/hero around him in the JL yet somehow is incapable of doing such to himself

Flash: I feel like I can never open up to the team

Batman: Maybe it’s your problems with emotional intimacy because you maintain a purely comedic relationship with your closest friends and never speak about your serious grievances.

Alfred: sir do you ever think crimefighting directly after the death of Jason may lead you to be more aggressive

Bruce: no why would you say that (slamming fists into low level criminals face)

[chawsl]

[stone-cold-groove]

Death rates are so overrated.

[fuzzytimes1]

Despite a relatively low mortality rate, Covid-19 is a leading cause of death for children in the United States

CNN — Covid-19 has become the eighth leading cause of death in children in the United States a study published Monday. Children are significantly less likely to die from Covid-19 than any other age group — less than 1% of all deaths since the pandemic began have been among the under-18s, according to Federal Data. Covid-19 is the third leading cause of death in the general population. But it’s…

[keferon]

…here’s a bunch of Blurrs👍

[yourlocalcorviddad]

Ok Ok so.

In dpxdc stories. Danny always gets assumed to be sick or uses it as an excuse or whatever to hide his powers right?

What if he wasn't lying?

It wasn't something easily noticed, not when half a dozen other things could explain it after all.

The shakes lingering? Well he'd used his ice powers a lot the night before fighting Skulker.

The faint feeling and lightheadedness? Well his mom had a good shot when people didn't interfere, and while he healed fast, it wasn't from nothing; he felt better after he ate anyway.

Heart racing suddenly? Probably just attempting to regulate the low beat on reflex again to seem normal but over shot it.

But the getting out of breath or spotty vision hadn't really been easily explained.

It was Mr. Lancer who asked about it after he'd gotten up from his seat in detention-happening less and less for actual reasons and more an opportunity to safely do his work and rest, after the truce with the ghosts to leave him and the town be during certain hours-only for the next thing he knew he was on the floor, head pillowed on Mr. Lancer's sweater, and a cool wet paper towel on his forehead and neck.

POTS. Post orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Not uncommon for those who had had injuries too their hearts to get.

It made sense when the teacher asked if he could have it. Apparently a friend of his's daughter had it.

From there, it made things easier to an extent. Salt was pretty easy to add, he figured out a wrist brace that he could extend into a cane if needed to.

In ghost form he didn't need it at all, but human form had its limits.

Despite all that he'd gone through, he graduates and even gets accepted to a college near jazz, hers was in Metropolis but Gotham had the ambient ectoplasm that he needed, and it was a day trip away.

And so Gotham U became his home, especially after his parents couldn't take that he wasn't "their son" anymore when he told them-after moving everything and getting his cheap apartment set up just in case. He considered it lucky that they loved their son enough they couldn't hunt "his ghost".

Last he'd heard they were working closer with the GIW but hadn't had much luck since the portal strangely closed soon after he left and the other ghosts didn't feel much reason to visit Amity anymore without him there.

It was Gotham U where he met Dick by literally fainting into his arms after a long day where he'd forgotten to eat and the early dinner the night before plus the going down the stairs at a quick pace and leaning forward with gravity.

"sorry, couldn't help falling for you~" the cheesy pick up line was the only thing his foggy brain could comprehend before he fainted.

[cursed-rat-of-homosexuality]

yeah yeah moonlight kiss, fire lesbians and unicorn izzy are pretty cool and nifty I know but WHY AREN'T WE MOURNING THE DEPARTURE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN HAIRED SEA WITCH??? HE LITERALLY LEFT US AND FLEW AWAY TO BE FREE HOW AREN'T YALL CRYING OVER THAT?? You don't get it he's... he's gone.... he left us....like. fr....If Frenchie doesn't learn how to talk to seagulls real quick I think I'm going to lose it.

[dizzzyondreams]

okay. whatever.

[lotus-pear]

regret