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SymmetryChaser t1_j78vtdx wrote

Reply to comment by Psi_in_PA in [OC]Methadone overdoses increased 48% during the COVID-19 relaxation of 'take-homes' according to data from the US CDC. There was a high-correspondence (r =+.77) between state level distribution of methadone for opioid use disorder (OUD), but not pain (r = -.08), and methadone ODs. by Psi_in_PA

How does the data imply that methadone for pain is safer? The average (over dose size, which is a bad average as we don’t know how prevalent each dose is…) overdoses/100k of both groups are about the same, and for the same dose it seems like methadone for OUD is much much safer. The graphs do imply that large doses of methadone for OUD are less safe than small doses, but overall it seems like small and even moderate doses of methadone for OUD are much safer than the average use of methadone for pain.

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donuthorse t1_j78ppul wrote

Reply to [Topic][Open] Open Discussion Thread — Anybody can post a general visualization question or start a fresh discussion! by AutoModerator

Someone is trying to hurt and kill dogs in my home town! I need help!

A little bit of background: I live in a town in Sweden with around 340.000 people. Since December 2020 - Today, we've had over 150 known attempts to try to hurt and kill dogs.

The perpetrator, in most cases, deploys small baked bread buns containg sharp, hand made "stars" made out of pieces of tin can. Sometimes the buns are dropped in plain sight, sometimes near bushes / under leaves etc.

Now, I have collected all the police reports, gone through them all and entered them into excel with dates, time when reported (where applicable), on what address it happened etc.

Can someone help me to visualize this somehow? Maybe there is some kind of pattern? Maybe I'm grasping at straws here.. but maybe someone can help me?

Thank you

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Simon676 t1_j788szi wrote

Reply to comment by TheDiano in W-2 Wage Distribution by Tax Bracket & Gender [OC] by takeasecond

No you of course can't just say "they're being paid more than me" and conclude you're being discriminated against, but some of the reason why engineers are being paid so much and teachers so little can partly be explained with there being more or less men and women in a specific trade.

Issue for me trying to explain this to you is that I'm coming from a country, Sweden, which has largely solved this issue and has lots of research on the subject. And I'm guessing you're from the US, where you're largely stuck at the point we were 20 years ago. I can't expect to convince you otherwise when you have lobbyists who've been spending millions telling you this shit for the past 20 years to hinder any progress.

Like even weighing in all the relevant factors like differences in trade, hours, experience, and like 20 other things you still have a massive gap in pay, one that you really can't explain with anything other than gender discrimination.

Here's a relevant graph from my thesis, showing how there still was a big gap even when properly compensating for all relevant factors:

https://www.ekonomifakta.se/webapi/chartimage/direct/png/sv/23886/1,2/all/1200

This is official data from the official governmental agency of statistics, Statistics Sweden or SCB.

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TheDiano t1_j783k6m wrote

Reply to comment by Simon676 in W-2 Wage Distribution by Tax Bracket & Gender [OC] by takeasecond

Yes it does, different occupations pay different wages. At my college, 80% of the engineering students were male. Females are more common in occupations like teaching. That doesn’t mean there’s a wage gap when engineers make more than teachers

Edit: you realize that wages are created by the value they create ($$), they aren’t just randomly created out of thin air

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