Well at least fentanyl gave us a hero

I find it interesting how common opioid deaths drop as heroin deaths spike in 2011.... after years of increasing "common opioid" deaths. Id guess people were switching over to heroin.

So the reason you don’t “just show counts” is precisely because of fluctuations in the denominator (the population). Deaths per 100,000 standardizes by the population so let’s make a fake and sort of exaggerated example. I’d say one year there are 50,000 deaths among a population of 100,000 the deaths per 100k estimate is of course 50,000 deaths per 100,000. Now let’s imagine the population double somehow by the next year and this time 100,000 people died. The deaths per 100,000 estimate comes out to…50,000 deaths per 100,000. So this tells us that the rate of overdose deaths did not change between the two years despite the populations changing dramatically. This is why counts themselves are not an informative statistic unless it’s amongst a stable population. Counts would be more useful if it was say the number of ED visits for overdose for a hospital and that hospital was trying to measure the volume of patients they see in a given period of time. Even then they would likely be just as if not more interested in the percentage of all ed visits were for overdoses.

You seem to be confused about deaths due to other causes somehow impacting the denominator, I think? The population is of course whoever was alive in that year so I don’t see how more births or more deaths is relevant because for deaths they obviously won’t be included in the population for the following year and births don’t really change dramatically enough to have great enough of an impact on the denominator but either way babies can still die from an overdose, it’s tragically sad but it does happen, so they should be included in the denominator.

This is a perfectly appropriate graph and I made several very similar to this as part of my thesis research on the opioid crisis.

Depending on when OP went to school it may have been before AP classes were created (which are graded on a weighted 5.0 scale)

My mistake. I probably translated the terms a little too directly from German to English. But you are right, that’s what I meant.

What I think you're saying is that the daily temperature depends on air quality with more CO2 resulting in lower temps. Can you explain how that works?

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I was so confused until I remembered that in the UK, the word “majority” means what we call a “plurality” in the US. I take it that absolute majority means more than half in this context, which is what we Americans just call a majority, while simple majority means the most, which Americans call a plurality.

The war on drugs ended a long time ago. What we need is a new one. Mexican cartels should be classified as foreign terrorist organizations and the US military should kill every last one of them. The statistics clearly show these cartels are 1000x as dangerous as all the stupid Muslim groups we waste all of our effort on currently. Drug trafficking should carry the death penalty.

This must be false because Trump said he was going to fix it.

I'm biased, but I like the German voting system.

Proportional representation seems fair to me, and the 5%-threshold keeps super-extremist parties out of parliaments. I really like it.

How do you create these dynamic charts?

nkklito kc technically manhattan area ung main city sa new york.

Coincides with the Mexican cartel shift to fentanyl and opiate production

You’re making a claim, cite yours too

The financial crises since 2008 have killed a lot of people…

…virtually no one in jail in the US.

My dad is part of this statistic. 2018. RIP <3

Labour and lib would need the SNP.

Those who go to school earn a sufficiently high wage premium that they do not require subsidization. End of story.

If they want a budget option they are available.

I see no reason to give future high earners tens of thousands of public dollars and have the public assume all the risk if they fail. Figure it out for yourself or don't go.

The problems have not been solved in other countries. They are just hiding in bloated government spending that benefits only high earners and shifts all the risk to the public. Hard pass.

A good bit of errors, but it's pretty cool

Heroin must feel like such a failure.

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That's interesting to hear! I know there are schools out there that still use unweighted system, but weighted GPA seems to be the primary for most schools now. I'm definitely curious about whether or not weighted GPA was still used by some schools back then, or 4.0 scale was just the standard for most/all.

No idea what you're talking about, and neither does historical record. Gordon Brown was the only world leader calling the others to action in the financial crisis of 2008. Not Obama, who had only been in office for a week, nor Merkel, but Brown. It sounds mad to say it now, but even Putin followed Brown's call to action. I'm no fan of the guy, but he acted when action was needed. For more information of why the 2008 global financial crash happened, watch 'The Big Short (2015), the events of which all happened on George W's watch.

I'm old but when I was in high school 4.0 was the top. You could have cured cancer and not get a 4.01. I'm not sure what's right or wrong but a top seems to make sense.