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That viral 'study' about eggs and heart risk fell apart when I checked the sample size
A friend sent me a link last Tuesday from a site quoting a 500,000 person study that eggs triple your heart risk, and it was everywhere on my feed by dinnertime. When I clicked the actual paper in the journal, the sample was 1,200 people in one town in Sweden, and funding came from a supplement company, so the 500,000 number was pulled from an old meta analysis they stitched on. How do you all handle it when family keeps sharing these inflated headlines after you show them the real numbers?
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thea60214h ago
Stopped trying to change my mom's mind directly and just started replying to the group chat with a screenshot of the actual sample size every single time she posted one of those. After about a month of getting the same treatment, she started checking the study link herself before forwarding anything. It also helped to ask her "who paid for this one" instead of arguing about the numbers, because the money question is easier for her to remember and look for on her own.
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