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Mustn't forget tidying up the wrist-slitting in 13 Reasons Why.

• klyrs 4y ago
  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.
  • rajin444 4y ago
    Nor should we forget to beware the man of one study.
    • Sinidir 4y ago
      The Werther Effect is thoroughly studied effect. There are plenty of studies on the issue.
    • klyrs 4y ago
      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.
  • ac29 4y ago
    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.