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Chat: what ever happened to the Nielsen deprivation study?

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Tuesday 4 May 2021

12:09Paul Alexander Dowhey. you might have told me this, but, if so, i forgot. what ever happened with the Nielsen deprivation study? I think I lost track when covid hit. I know there was one or more pilot studies completed, but did they ever do the full thing?
12:12Moira Kathleen Ballantyne BurkeThere were two one-wave pilot studies and the findings have been shared with leads internally, but afaik we're not planning to do a longer-term study. The findings were basically that people's expectations totally drove the results, and we weren't able to use the data to disentangle those expectation effects. Summary: https://fb.quip.com/MkxAA3gfY84C
12:29Paul Alexander Dowwell, shit. that seems like a result worth publicizing on its own. not that anyone would want to hear it from us. maybe that is a study for FORT, what is the role of expectation effects on social media deprivation studies. i see has a deprivation study in her list of research projects for the Problematic Use stream.
14:03Paul Alexander Dowthanks for offering to run another IC takeover meeting. let me know if you'd like me to just drop the calendar invite, so you can create a new one.