Researchers from Brigham Young University have found that people who mention suicide in their Twitter posts are likely to attempt the act in real life.
What seems like an obvious conclusion is being interpreted as evidence that teens use the social media platform for more than just posturing. Rather, in many cases, teens take to Twitter to voice real concerns, and those messages should not be written off as kids merely looking for "social media sympathy."
CNet reports that the researchers sifted through millions of tweets gathered from all 50 states over three months, hunting for both direct discussions of suicide and keywords associated with a range of suicide risk factors.They found that in each state, the proportion of tweets discussing suicide is related to that state's actual suicide rate.
Amazing Book Facts:
Did You Know?
1. Did you know that the Chinese invented paper around 105 AD? Before this, people wrote on parchment (animal skin) to create books.
2. Each second, 57 books are sold. Someone figured that in one day, you’d need 78 miles of book shelving to store that amount of books.
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When one launches into a conversation on the topic of “student research,” the discussion invariably turns negative. Whether it is diving down the rabbit hole of high-stakes testing or driving off the cliff of data security and use concerns, it can be a challenge to take a substantive look at the value and positive impact of student data.
It doesn’t have to be this way, nor should it. Groups like the Data Quality Campaign do yeoman’s work...
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The OECD’s PISA report, The ABC of Gender Equality in Education, featured in The Global Search for Education: Education and Gender, illustrated that the gender...
There is no question that the rhetoric (or supposed rhetoric) of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken on a life of its own. The perception of Trump’s campaign words seems to have generated extreme emotions on both sides of the political spectrum.
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