I...I have no words Non-randomized, n=63, Control: staring at desk Active intervention: caring for plant Outcome: tiny difference in proxy of mental health Headlines:pic.twitter.com/oWUH77FvMu
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P.s. for all those asking, this particular study was funded by Mitsubishi, who as far as I know don't make houseplantspic.twitter.com/HXHhHmIxb6
Blog now out on this:https://medium.com/@gidmk/desk-plants-wont-cure-your-work-anxiety-fdf1aa4e1b1d …
Study sponsored by the World Houseplant Association...?
They certainly didn't do much for mine. I was notorious in my last workplace for being the person who killed plant after plant after plant through neglect. My track record was so bad, one of my underlings ended up visiting my office every few days (unasked) to water my plants.
My excuse was that it was the plant's fault. Dogs & cats at least make a noise. "I'm hungry! I'm thirsty! Attend to my needs!" But plants just sit there. Doing their plant thing. All silent. So you forget about them. And then one day, weeks later, you look up & they're dead.
Woah, hang on. "This study is poorly designed so the opposite of its finding must be true" is a huge leap. There's tons of research on how access to nature and stuff that mimics nature is beneficial. Don't dismiss the introduction of Biophilic elements cos of one poor study.
The opposite would be that desk plants cause anxiety. I'm saying that the most likely inference from a study like this is that the null is more likely to be true than not
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