"What ever happened with the Nielsen deprivation study?"

Alex Dow: "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?" Moira Burke: "There were two one-wave pilot studies and the findings have been shared with leads internally, but afaik we're not planning to totally 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." Alex Dow: "well, 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."