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mseebach on Nov 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Your Smartphone's Dirty, Radioactive Secret

Out of a million people, 17 suicides isn’t much—indeed, American college students kill themselves at four times that rate.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/

I think US college students is a socioeconomically appropriate group to compare with.

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