Read the article and reflect upon:
Article by Phillips: “Suicide, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and the Mass Media: Evidence Toward a Theory of Suggestion.”
Compose a critical thinking paper that addresses the reading selection.
For this paper you are required to critically analyze the reading, pointing out its strengths and weaknesses. This paper should be written up as a report, and not an answer to the series of questions posed below.
You may want to consider (as is appropriate) issues like:
Is the method appropriate to the question that the author sets out to investigate?
Are there any weaknesses to the approach they have used?
Does their method introduce any limitations on their analysis?
Is the method appropriate to the question that the author sets out to investigate?
Have they accounted for all of the possible explanations/factors?
Do you believe their results?
Should the authors have done something else?