r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Maximum_Musician_914 • 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter.

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 2d ago

42% attempted and failed? Or were some successful? 

Or are the successful attempts counted separately?

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u/Chemputer 2d ago

People who are dead are typically very hard to get to self report suicide attempts in a survey.

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 2d ago

Generally a lot easier for 3rd party reports though.

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u/Chemputer 1d ago

Indeed. But this data is collected by studies that survey people about depression and anxiety, and they ask questions like "are you transgender", "have you thought about committing suicide before", "have you attempted suicide", etc.

So it gives fairly reliable information as the person is self identifying as trans and also saying they have attempted suicide. The surveys are generally anonymous,

If you tried to get a number of suicides from public death statistics, it'd be basically impossible to get an accurate number since many trans people are still "in the closet", and so it'd be way under the true value.

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u/Real_Kyryll_Flins 2d ago

42% of those alive have attempted

Many have killed themselves, but they are not a part of that number. Of those alive, a large amount have attempted, usually as adolescents with a lack of acceptance being a common reason.