My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along

Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by klyrs on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:32PM (#34468831)

Nor should we forget the social contagion risk of suicide

> After the series' release, a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that suicide among teenagers rose by 28.9% in the month after Netflix launched the show.

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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by rajin444 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:01PM (#34469151)

Nor should we forget to beware the man of one study.

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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by klyrs on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:33PM (#34469487)

Who's the "man" in this case? Not me. Not a man, and I see that study as a single data point associated with a single event. There are many studies on the social contagion effect of suicide, enough that it's worth considering the possible impact of how suicide is depicted in media.

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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by Sinidir on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:26PM (#34469417)

The Werther Effect is thoroughly studied effect. There are plenty of studies on the issue.

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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by ac29 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:06PM (#34469203)

While 28.9% sounds like a shocking number, it was only a few dozen additional deaths.

A few additional concerns with the paper:

-The authors made no effort to try and determine if any of the people who died had seen the show, or even had heard of it.

-Suicides were up the month before the show was released as well.

-In fact, suicides in that age group had been trending up for years according to their data, which is not mentioned in the discussion of results at all.

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