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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: 60 Minutes' D&D Segment
Message-ID: <2356@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 21:10:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 21:10:12 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

60 Minutes recently had a rather biased segment on Dungeons and Dragons as
a possible trigger of teen-age suicide.  I listened carefully and managed
to come up with two facts admidst all the anecdotal, unsubstantiated
generalizations:
	1.  About three millions youngsters play D&D
	2.  60 Minutes did a LOT of research and came up with 28 suicides
that might have been related to D&D over FIVE years.

Does anyone out there know what the average US teenage suicide rate per
million is?  I'd like to know if D&D players are higher or lower than
average.

Thank you.

Lee Gold


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