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I mean why use any metrics at all of you're going to try to correlate them with something seemingly unrelated with no context like # of suicides?

I was saying that US has high suicides despite a high GDP. Not that there is a correlation.

Actually # of suicides would be a good metric for a country’s health.

Only if you take in the affect of geography. And by that I really mean the amount of sunlight available during the different seasons of the year.