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How a month of abstinence can lead to 'meat disgust' | There are some surprising impacts of cutting out meat, even for a short period, which can carry on well beyond the end of abstinence. (www.bbc.com)
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[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The article also site other studies too. (It calls the N=40 preliminary early research)

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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