RE: I see it as totally expected. People in a high stress profession with ready access to self medication SHOULD be killing themselves more often
SEE HERE:
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-suicidal-occupations-2011-10?op=1
That was three years ago.
I expected Nurses to be on the top 20 but they aren’t. I also did not see Border Patrol agents or Military Personnel, or Emergency Workers.
What’s interesting there really is the small variations. Everybody in that 1.3x zone could easily just be statistical noise. We do that with a lot of stuff, a small statistical variation puts a group in a “most likely” situation and we ignore how small the variation really is.