To test her hypothesis, Trisha designed two software programs: Baseline and Rethink. Each member of her test group, 150 boys and 150 girls between age 12 and 18, were presented with five different messages based on real-life examples from a cyberbullying research agency. She found that the Baseline group was willing to post 67.2% of the hurtful messages they viewed. In the Rethink group, the initial willingness to post was 71.07%; however, after viewing the prompt encouraging them to reconsider the message, only 6.57% went ahead with the post.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:44:46 +0000