The Impact of Televised Movies about Suicide

Martin A. Tanner; Joseph A. Murray; David P. Phillips; Daniel J. Paight; Madelyn S. Gould; David Shaffer

doi:10.1056/NEJM198803173181112

The Impact of Televised Movies about Suicide

Martin A. Tanner, Joseph A. Murray, David P. Phillips, Daniel J. Paight, Madelyn S. Gould, David Shaffer

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To the Editor: To the casual reader, the inability of Phillips and Paight (Sept. 24, 1987, issue)¹ to replicate the results of Gould and Shaffer (Sept. 11, 1986, issue)² comes as no surprise. The extensive confounding of the variable of interest with numerous extraneous variables, as well as the inability to determine who actually watched the movies, would seem to cast doubt on the reliability of the results of the Gould and Shaffer paper. The more observant reader may have expected that the results would not be reproduced, given the peculiar patterns of the data reported by Gould and Shaffer.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	707-708
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	318
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198803173181112
State	Published - Mar 17 1988

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