Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference?

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    3 months ago

    But do we have evidence they’re effective?

    It still takes effort/time/money to do this, and if it has no impact, then that effort/time/money could be used on things that are known to be effective.

    I have no idea how much effect they have. It’s possible they have a negative effect.

    Op’s question is do we have that information?

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      3 months ago

      How much effort/time/money do you think they put into that white text on black background that’s on screen for like 5 seconds?

      It’s negligible, I would be shocked if it wasn’t the same recycled card over and over again that they have some unpaid intern throw in at some point in the final editing stages

      It would probably cost more effort/time/money to do a study on its effectiveness than the pre roll does many times over lmao

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        It’s not about the production cost, its about the opportunity cost.

        A quick google search tells me a national ad costs $200k-$1m for a 30s slot. That means 5 seconds of screen time costs $30k-$150k.