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by DanBC 1649 days ago
Probably the fencing. We have enough pseudo-experiments now that we can say the fencing makes a difference. There's a carpark in the UK that had trouble adding fencing, so they closed the top level.
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> Probably the fencing.

That may well be.

I do not deny that it is a solution for spontaneous suicides in a younger (male?) demographics. Do suicide methods of women or middle aged/elderly people differ? What types of suicides do access restricting measures prevent? Do people change methods? And so on.

Suicide is a graven field for social scientists.