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Real_Solitude -> RE: CUTTING (4/30/2008 3:14:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: hawknelsonismyfriend
only 1 in 25 emos cut.
Pulling statistics out of thin air is fun. Research is also fun, and actually informative. According to my surface-scratching research (pun intended) on Wikipedia...
"Mental Health Foundation estimates the rate in the UK to be 0.77%, and that the majority of people who self-harm are aged between 11 and 25 years, with between 1 in 12 and 1 in 15 young people self-harming."
"In a study of undergraduate students in the United States, 9.8% of the students surveyed indicated that they had purposefully cut or burned themselves on at least one occasion in the past. When the definition of self-injury was expanded to include head-banging, scratching oneself, and hitting oneself along with cutting and burning, 32% of the sample said they had done this."
I realize that this isn't relegated simply to cutting, but from what I can find nearly 90% of all people who Self-Injure have engaged in practices which draw blood. (Scratching/Cutting, I'm not including those who punch themselves or other objects). Even taking that extra 10% off keeps your statistic far from accurate.
Since we're here in the jolly ol' US of A, let's use the 9.8% statistic from the second survey. If we take 10% off, we end up with 8.82% of Americans as cutters. That's roughly 1/11 people (rounding down) that cut. Less than half of your provided statistic.
I don't know what percentage of emos cut in comparison to non-emos, but even if the statistics are even (which I strongly suggest is the case), we still have roughly 1/11 emos cutting.
Have fun with this new, correct statistic. Instead of responding that only 1 in every 11 emos cut, simply tell people that 1 in 11 people cut, and that it is a prevalent problem in America.
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