Controversy continues over '13 Reasons Why' and adolescent suicide

(Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania) A new pair of commentaries in PLOS ONE debate a reanalysis of data concerning adolescent suicide and the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why." Although a 2019 study found a contagion effect among boys, an Annenberg Public Policy Center reanalysis concluded that, to the contrary, the series had no clear effect. The author of the reanalysis stands by his work.