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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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
Study is here: https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/aop/article-10.21273-HORTTECH04427-19/article-10.21273-HORTTECH04427-19.xml …
Here is that massive, glorious difference that has people the world over buying pot plants:pic.twitter.com/AICUZDhHL9
It's just absurd If your control is "doing nothing" and your active intervention is "doing something" IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT YOU SEE A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE
There's also this delightful gem in the Daily Mail Statistical significance =/= practical importance A ONE POINT DIFFERENCE IN AN 80-POINT ANXIETY SCALE PROBABLY DOESN'T MEAN VERY MUCHpic.twitter.com/2fICbvO0MG
A big shout-out to whoever wrote the press release, because damn this is truly awfulpic.twitter.com/6yd8nY9O4s
Any researcher anywhere knows that this is almost certainly a meaningless study It's probably just regression to the mean (i.e. people improving just by random variation) And yet, the news is completely uncritical of this fact
As others are pointing out, there are lots more problems with this study TL:DR desk plants probably don't do very much for your anxiety
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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