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Fair enough, and I've heard this stat repeated many times.
But what's the corresponding statistic for boys? And what are the absolute numbers?
Because another one that I hear a lot is, "girls' suicide rates have increased by 20% but boys' are only up 3%!" Which is all well and good, but boys have a suicide rate that is already several times that of girls, so relative increases don't really tell you what's going on. (numbers not correct, but close enough, and meant to be illustrative)
How many of those girl suicides are "girls"?
Percentages also don't mean anything without a solid base figure to work from and both figures have to work from the same base.
They could easily argue 20% rise because an additional 1 in 5 women are committing suicide, compare to a mere 3 in 100 men.
In reality 3x as many men is the increase, but the percentages are switched because the base numbers are off.