Or, an even better headline, this study probably means nothing why was it even done?
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So, here's the study. I am honestly not sure what the point of it is https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41811-019-00041-x …
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Basically, the researchers recruited 540 undergraduate psychology students and got them to fill in some surveys onlinepic.twitter.com/ed2N6OiucB
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The surveys were on self-reported feelings of responsibility, demographics, and anxiety/OCD questionnairespic.twitter.com/Dm9S5gWZik
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They then plugged all of these things into a linear regression model, and found some fairly weak correlations (r^2=0.3) between personal responsibility behaviours and anxiety/OCD
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So, self-reported worry about responsibility in undergraduate students was weakly correlated with self-reported rates of OCD and anxiety THAT'S NOT EVEN VAGUELY CLOSE TO WHAT WAS REPORTED
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Now, we can debate the merits of this study, but even if you think it was important what was reported in the media is so totally different from what was found that it's absurdpic.twitter.com/eH1gVLPKpx
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Take-home: if you're an American undergraduate psychology student, there may be a correlation between your self-reported anxiety/OCD and your feelings of personal responsibility There may not That's pretty much it
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Blog out on this study and the media nonsensehttps://medium.com/@gidmk/responsibility-doesnt-give-you-ocd-or-anxiety-807b8036afd0 …
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They get mouse OCD it's totally different
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