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Suicides in women in the 1950s and 1960s were actually lower than what they were in the 1980's, so this is a bullshit comparison tweet, where the 1970s happened to have the highest rate and the tweeter is putting a causation to the numbers that may not even have direct causation. I could just as easily claim that vehicle fuel economy improving during the 70's caused a decrease in female suicides.
Female suicides hit its lowest at around 2000 before trending upwards again.
While I can't necessarily disagree with your correlation≠causation argument...
Better gas mileage probably contributed a more than zero amount to that decrease.
You could very well be right, but it's just impossible to control for such variables, so we can't say one way or the other with a degree of certainty. Especially considering that a 20% swing in numbers consists of a mere 1 or 2 people per 100,000 difference.
And then VTEC kicked in yo, and female suicides skyrocketed
Lol. Right? What was that, like 1997? VTEC makes women kill themselves.