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| "Pressured" into Suicide |
by Matthew Sheets
Cordell Elementary School, Cordell, Oklahoma
(presented at the 1999 Earthstorm Science Fair)
This is my third Mesonet project.
I'm interested in the weather and its effect on people. I had an idea for a project
and then did research on the Internet to get more information.
I decided to do
this project because I had done an earlier project on weather and its effect
on people. I wondered if barometric air pressure had any effect on the number
of people who commit suicide. I obtained information regarding the number of
suicides and I obtained data regarding the barometric pressure. I graphed the
pressure and the number of suicides on line graphs and made a pie chart to show
the results.
I learned that there is not a relationship between barometric pressure
and the number of suicides. More suicides do not occur when the barometric pressure
is low.
I would like to do another Mesonet project because I'm interested in
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