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julietOscarEch0 t1_j4boft3 wrote

Reply to comment by Pixielo in Share of global population with mental health disorders by Jofroop

Well reporting is not the only source used. But I agree stigma probably affects many of the sources. Reading around they view these numbers as a minimum estimate and acknowledge there's greater uncertainty in developing countries.

I'd agree you can't immediately assume differences in the numbers are truly differences in the incidence of mental illness, if that's your point.

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Pixielo t1_j4bjrzx wrote

Reply to comment by BobLoblaw_BirdLaw in Share of global population with mental health disorders by Jofroop

When there are more medical professionals, people receive more care. When there's educational outreach about mental health issues, people seek out help. When there are fewer social stigmas against receiving care for mental health issues, people seek out care.

>Guess living a simple basic life helps

No, it doesn't. There are simply far fewer services available, coupled with massive stigmas against receiving such help, better to just go see the local shaman.

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cholerachalora OP t1_j4bct94 wrote

Reply to comment by duck_duck_woah in [OC] India's rice imports of top 10 countries on the basis of quantity for the year 2021-22 by cholerachalora

Mainly because countries need to maintain foreign relations and trade on mutually agreed commodities but if we look at it on a micro level, India can very well fulfill its demand but some people for the sake of international products would import rice and that could also account for some of it

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BroadElderberry t1_j4b71p7 wrote

Reply to comment by greenappletree in How do people across the world spend their time and what does this tell us about living conditions? by kraken_enrager

I mean, that's how averages work. They're one view of the data, that includes the extreme values. They aren't a complete picture, but they have their value.

In this chart, the exact values aren't what's being showcased, it's more how values compare between countries.

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GrendaGrendinator t1_j4b5cgz wrote

Reply to [OC] Heavy Metal bands in Spanish-speaking countries · Jan'2023 by UsandoFXOS

Assuming I'm reading this correctly; why not show metal bands/total bands? Metal bands per 1mil capita shows metal affluence among the general population but not how popular that music is compared to other genres. It partially reflects bands of any genre per capita in addition to metal popularity without isolating either. Total bands per country is also silly info since that chart reflects population.

A country of 100k with 100 metal bands is going to have 1k metal bands per mil which is really high, but if they also have 9900 other bands then that's only 1% metal bands and metal probably isn't that popular there.

A country like Mexico with 130 million people in it is also very obviously going to fucking stomp a small country like Costa Rica and their 5 million people into the ground in terms of total number of bands if they have even slightly comparable amounts of interest in metal per capita.

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