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TIL that viral 'doomscrolling' study from 2019 was flagged as weak before it blew up
I was reading old academic threads last week and found a comment from a researcher in Ohio who called out that famous study linking doomscrolling to depression. They said the sample size was only 214 people and the effect size was tiny, but nobody listened until it hit mainstream news. Now I'm wondering, how many other 'science bombs' get hyped because the correction comes way too late? Has anyone else tracked a so-called breakthrough back to its original thread and seen the red flags that got ignored?
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