One Netflix show causing a 29% increase in suicide rates? Numbers like these from studies with ‘adjusted for’ stats should cause an immediate reaction of “Nope” or less politely “Bullshit.”https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1123240275869040640 …
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Eliezer Yudkowsky Retweeted zeynep tufekci
One Netflix show causing a 29% increase in suicide rates? Numbers like these from studies with ‘adjusted for’ stats should cause an immediate reaction of “Nope” or less politely “Bullshit.”https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1123240275869040640 …
Eliezer Yudkowsky added,
I actually tried to pull the data they looked at (though I could only find CDC data aggregated by age into clusters for 5-14 & 15-24 years) to visualize. What I saw showed a clear & concerning upward trend in suicides over 5 years but nothing remarkable for April 2017
Will share when I get to my laptop. I don't know that I'd dismiss an effect altogether, but it definitely looks in the realm of "a small handful of suicides are possibly attributable" at most, and I don't think that's the takeaway most folks are getting
(April 2017 highlighted in red)pic.twitter.com/4zMxFLDZMY
I used the Detailed Mortality database from the CDC link in the paper, grouped the results by month, selected all states/genders/etc., selected only 5-14 & 15-24 age groups & selected "Suicide" under Injury Intent and Mechanism. Exported to Google Sheets to generate the charts
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