Young adult suicide is down, as demonstrated by regression.

This is an article about a very sensitive topic, but it is also a hopeful article (young adult suicide seems to be on the decline in the US, and there is reason to believe that it is due to the introduction of the 988 hotline.)Here is a link to the original research study published in JAMA Network, and here is a link to Scientific American's write-up on the research.In my class, I emphasize that regression has a lot in common with correlation, but adds prediction. I emphasize it so much that I used it in the name of my regression chapter in my textbook.As such, I was delighted to find this excellent, psychology-related example of how past data was used to predict the future. But the future is the present? And the predicted data lives in an alternative timeline where the 988 mental health crisis hotline never existed in America. Anyway, TL;DR: Young adult suicide is on the decline (hooray!!) in America, and this research a) uses fancy regression to demonstrate this and then 2) uses…