Sorry, snowflakes, but ‘trigger warnings’ don’t actually do anything

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‘Trigger warnings’ where people are warned about offensive content are increasingly popular among politically correct youngsters – but there’s just one, tiny problem.There had been very little research into the effects of the warnings, which are used at universities to ‘protect’ students from harmful content – but researchers tested how well they worked.

Researcher Mevagh Sanson of The University of Waikato said, ‘We, like many others, were hearing new stories week upon week about trigger warnings being asked for or introduced at universities around the world.Researchers showed 1,394 volunteers distressing content , with some of the volunteers seeing trigger warnings such as, ‘TRIGGER WARNING: The following video may contain graphic footage of a fatal car crash. You might find this content disturbing.

 

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