Bookmarks - Internet stuff: Suicide and country music

I lost you, but I found country music... This isn't an easy read, but is fascinating: a consideration of a research paper which claimed to find a link between country music on the radio, and the white suicide rate:

The story doesn’t end there though – there were some responses to the article. Mauk, Taylor, White and Allen conclude that “inferences about individual behavior drawn from aggregate data are fallacious and that the authors fail to provide compelling evidence to support that country music is any different from others types of music in its relationship to individual life events and suicide”.

[via currybet]