This is SPECTACULAR* The "new study"? It was a before/after survey of 94 people who visited a park. Being in the park resulted in a ~1 point increase in a 55-point scale of happiness *ly badhttps://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1102403559830757376 …
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So they researchers looked at a small sample of people who visited a park, compared their before/after scores, and found that they were a ~tiny~ bit happier after being in the park But that's not all
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Guess who funded this research? If you guessed the CITY OF MOUNTAIN BROOKS PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, you'd be hilariously rightpic.twitter.com/llJJ60aT63
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Seriously, you can't make this up. It's brilliantpic.twitter.com/STJfbaeJuN
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Anyway, they did some logistic regression to test how well time spent in park predicted wellbeing and found that 20.5 minutes was the optimal amount Ish
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What they actually found was that, using their ROC, at 20.5 minutes, the sensitivity and specificity were 89% and 44% respectively, which is, uh, pretty much useless in terms of predictionpic.twitter.com/sHl44FSmF9
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This research has been picked up a lot - Altmetric score of 224! - but seriously, you can't take much away from a 94-person survey of people who use parks that doesn't even have a control group
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A more honest headline would be "People who spend time in parks improve wellbeing by 2% on average, although half have no improvement or even get worse so it's questionable whether that means much at all more research is needed"
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To be fair here, I would guess that parks do improve subjective wellbeing - I mean, I doubt that they make it worse, at least - but I don't think this study methodology can really say much about that question, except that more research is needed
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Lol yeh I guess. More rigorous research is needed!
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