[oldmanjay]

Whenever people mention the Foxconn suicide nets, I remember how nobody noted that the measured suicide rate of Foxconn workers is and was lower than the general population, and I laugh at humanity's prospect of ever rising above its animal nature.

[illicium]

Suicide rate or suicide attempt rate?

[icebraining]

Even the attempt rate in Foxconn during their worst year was less bad than the suicide rate in the general population.

And the suicide rate was lower not only than the suicide rate in the China as a whole, as it was lower than in all 50 states of the United States.

[marshray]

I ran the numbers based on the public data and it came out that the Foxconn factory had a suicide rate similar to a Caribbean island country such as the Bahamas.

[Ericson2314]

Is suicide "animal"?

[doktrin]

I think 'animal nature' was a jab at our tendency to make judgments clouded by bias

Emphasis on 'I think', because the comment wasn't worded very clearly.

[Ericson2314]

Yours seems to be the most sensible interpretation.