Lgbt Discrimination And Suicide Essay

The hypothesis generated at the beginning of the experiment was proven false. There was no definitive correlation between LGBT discrimination and global suicide rates. Since there was not any definitive correlation, the hypothesis that there would be a high positive correlation was proven false. There are several different explanations as to why the data turned out this way. One reason is that suicide rates in third world or undeveloped countries are on average lower. Lakshmi Vijayakumar, an award winning psychiatrist, published an article entitled Suicide Prevention: The Urgent Need in Developing Countries, in the World Psychiatric Association 's journal. She states that suicide rates are much higher in developed countries.Vijayakumar’s article is about spikes of suicide rates in countries that are becoming developed. She talks about the differences in numbers of suicides, varying factors and methods, and mental …show more content…
The conclusion can be made that the reason that no global correlation was found is because undeveloped third world countries that have high LGBT discrimination rates also have low suicide rates on average. There would have been a high negative in that case if the first world countries were not also factored in. Developed first world countries have, for the most part, pretty good LGBT rights, therefore the discrimination percentage is lower, but as Vijayakumar stated suicide rates are higher. This data leads to an analysis that there is no correlation between and suicide rates. Research done in the United States has proved that there is in fact a correlation though. The Center for Disease Control published in their weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report that LGBT youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers. The United States is highly developed