13 Reason's Why Articel

Read this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/13-reasons-why-demonstrates-cultures-power/535518/

Secondary Knowledge Claims:

Increased attention towards suicide and how the larger awareness is brought to it the greater the rates of suicide would be.

“increased coverage of suicide in the media leads to a related increase in suicide attempts.”

Case studies and sample studies reflect the group as a whole.

“An editorial published at JAMA commenting on the study stated that teens are particularly vulnerable when it comes to binge viewing.”

Correlation is causation. The use of statistical data is one of justifying the harsh analyses and appears to have taken in two events around the time and discounted them instead of eliminating other factors, such as season, global events, and region of search.

“JAMA Internal Medicine, used Google Trends to monitor certain search terms regarding the subject of suicide, like “how to commit suicide,” “suicide hotline number,” and “teen suicide.” Seventeen out of the top 20 searches were significantly elevated, and the biggest increases came with terms related to suicidal thoughts and ideation, like “how to kill yourself.” The time period for searches ended on April 18 to preclude the suicide of the former NFL player Aaron Hernandez, which could have influenced data, and any searches related to the movie Suicide Squad were discounted.”

RQ:

How do we interpret data in order to form knowledge?

To what extent should we rely on correlation to formulate arguments and justify ramifications?

When often reading articles we run across many firm stances often backed up by the studies, and other primary sources. However, when examining these studies and primary sources you might find that many of them will not be directly linked to the articles purpose and or rely on correlations as the main backbone of the argument or answer.

For example when analyzing large groups in order to create an argument which the data “directly” answers and follows the question and gives the almost desired answer. When analyzing search results of scary clowns and other related monsters, in order to analyzing the impact of the newest adaptation Stephen King’s IT. We see the study follows search queries for clowns, monster, and Stephen king, while excluding searches for It or other results that are two words which one is IT. These parameters are emplaced in order to prevent skewing of data, according the analyzers. While seemingly responsible and justified this research excludes many other parameters which should be emplaced in order to give better and more accurate results that follow a more direct correlation which should be more on the line of causation. Such as questionnaires querying people who research topics similar to the movie IT this will help show and justify the argument that these results are due to the movie and no other factors.

This commitment and time which it would take in order to get these results is far greater than the reward, as well as unrealistic, most people would avoid answering questionnaires and would often not spend the time to give much thought into them. Research studies are very difficult to find direct correlations, and even when there is a very seemingly apart examples they are often nearly impossible to trace back to a main source and have too many factors that impact the result, which make it nearly impossible to prove causation. An example of high correlation which will never achieve causation is Smoking and increased Cancer rates, they display great positive correlation. Many correlations are very reliable and do give great insight and better understanding of a situation and links between seemingly unrelated subjects, we cannot leave the all our faith on these correlations and must be demandingly selective when analyzing and studying research.

Ethical guidelines Investigation

How do we decide where to balance the interests of the psychological community in advancing knowledge (that might well give benefits in the future) with the protection of the experimental subject?

As a man of science I have an emmense patron forwhat the future could hold and or does hold for us, however the future is shaped by the decisions we make in the present. This means that the sacrifice of the now are capable of having positive and possibly quite beneficial impacts on our lifestyle and planet. This solely future based mindset comes from possibly some of the best intentions but tends to end or bring about some of the worsted most evil decisions as we perceive them. However, how do we no what is wrong or considered evil or bad how do we implace these concepts and notions which are determined by our filters of reality how does one know that something is bad. For example during WWII many experiments done to increase the speed of the war on both sides, specifically on the Aermican side, the USA's creation of an atomic bomb aided in a nearly single handedly ending the war. This demonstrates the intention of good and aiding the world as a whole while also presenting the devistation and consequences of the choice, at the time it seemed to be the best and swiftest course of action however because of this choice Millions of people suffered for generations to come.

Bringing us back to the ethical guidelines and how we should balance the shouted we make for the peoples of the presents with the society of the future. We as a human race are very grounded in aiding those in the present because that is the position we are currently in, to go against the societies we are in with the promise of some possibility of some greater benefit is aquatable to rolling 6 dice and having them all roll to one. It has been demonstrated as being highly improbable for humans to benefit themselves in the long run if a sacrifice must be made in order to aid them.

Realistically we must think about taking a balanced approach to experimental subjects one that is not to impeding on research and the benefit of the future while allowing for the satisfaction and security of the society the experiments are being taken in.