How a month of abstinence can lead to 'meat disgust'
www.bbc.com
There are some surprising impacts of cutting out meat, even for a short period, which can carry on well beyond the end of abstinence.
    • glimse@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 months ago

      That’s called an anecdote and I’ve got one, too: I stopped eating red meat and now I don’t find beef or lamb appetizing at all.

      Seems like it doesn’t happen to everyone and the article agrees with that

      Of the 40 participants, 28 reported an increase in meat disgust.

      • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
        141·
        3 months ago

        Of the 40 participants, 28 reported an increase in meat disgust.

        A study on a group of 40 is an anecdote at best, a waste of resources at worst.

        Reporting on it in on a big news website should be a crime, as it’s just a clickbait.

          • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
            9·
            3 months ago

            From another study with N=700:

            We measured self-reported meat consumption, meat disgust (by self-report and Implicit Association Test),

            IAT is phrenology of social studies. You can discard it as garbage. If a study is using IAT as methodology, it’s garbage done to gain some publication points.

            You can read more about IAT: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/1015-5759/a000778

            • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
              1·
              5 days ago

              Thanks for the link. Yeah, AIT powered studies could be made to imply literally anything depending on how the study is structured.

              “However, considering the moderate size of test-retest reliabilities for IATs, it would be inadequate to use a single IAT observation as an accurate diagnostic of an individual’s implicit association. This restriction on the use of IATs may also have contributed to their death.”