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		ank_the_elder on Sept 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A silent epidemic of male suicide (2011) Is that the actual murder rate or the conviction rate? Remember that women are less likely to be convicted than men are.

pessimizer on Sept 1, 2016 [–]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1635092

I think the way you're using "actual murder rate" here is by definition an unknowable number. Do you have the actual comparable likelihood of the conviction of women and men with the same evidence?

Is there actually any real question that men kill far more than women do?

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