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I can't access the study. How did they distinguish correlation with this event from the fifty billion other things that happened during March 2017? E.g. did the
by Strilanc 7y ago
I can't access the study. How did they distinguish correlation with this event from the fifty billion other things that happened during March 2017? E.g. did they check if the people who committed suicide tended to have a netflix account with this show in their history? Is it really just the date that they're using to correlate?
- zzzcpan 7y agoThey kind of acknowledge in the study that it is essentially a garbage study. Didn't prevent them from publishing it though. By the way, Russia pushed internet censorship to the population under this exact idea of saving children from suicide by censoring suicide ideas on the internet. And you can see from the comments here that people are easily convinced on such emotional issues, even if no actual facts are given.
- SkyBelow 7y agoThis is generally how politics works when it involves the social sciences. Rarely at the studies anywhere near as strong as the reporting on them implies it or as politicians treat it, but as long as it serves as good propaganda it is used. People will generally call out the cases they disagree with while not investigating the findings they agree with. This can lead to polarized individuals who both feel that science backs their side.
- goodfight 7y agoConfirmation bias is a terrible thing. I hope humanity can figure out a way to find more common ground in the future.
- DanBC 7y agoIt's not a garbage study. It carefully explains what they found and how they found it. Have you read the actual study?