Annenberg Public Policy Center: No Clear Evidence of Increase in Adolescent Suicide After '13 Reasons Why'
January 17, 2020
January 17, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 17 -- The Annenberg Public Policy Center issued the following news release:
Contrary to the findings of a 2019 study that associated the release of the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" with an increase in monthly suicide rates among adolescent boys, a reanalysis of the data by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds no evidence of contagion. The reanalysis, published in PLOS ONE, found that after controlling for the dramatic increase in ado . . .
Contrary to the findings of a 2019 study that associated the release of the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" with an increase in monthly suicide rates among adolescent boys, a reanalysis of the data by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds no evidence of contagion. The reanalysis, published in PLOS ONE, found that after controlling for the dramatic increase in ado . . .