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Re: 17-th suicide in Bridgend
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Well start looking a bit harder Sherlock because if these are "random" then just about every statisical record has probably been broken.
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Statistics is usually ahead of you here - humans aren't equipped to understand statistical anomalies without special training. However, in this case, don't discount the possibility of copy-catting, which certainly applies in other violent action cases like school shootings in the US. Still, let's not let mathematics and psychology distract us from having a go at the Internet, shall we?
Of course, there are other obvious but sad truths; young people have always taken their own lives, particularly in teenage years when the hormones are going nuts, we're perpetually blaming the young for society's ills and both main parties have had policies of depriving them of proper education*, not to mention testing them to destruction so middle class parents know where to buy houses.
* see http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_s...a-the-ill.html
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