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A collaboration between two research teams with opposing views found that, despite claims to the contrary, simply reminding people about the concept of accuracy improves the quality of information sharing on both sides of the political aisle.
How much can healthy eating improve a case of diabetes? A new health care program attempting to treat diabetes by means of improved nutrition shows a very modest impact, according to the first fully randomized clinical trial on the subject. The study, co-authored by MIT health care economist Joseph Doyle of the MIT Sloan School of Management, tracks participants in an innovative program that provides healthy meals in order to address diabetes and food insecurity at the same time. The expe...
New research shows relatively little impact from a nutritional program intended to reduce blood sugar levels among diabetics.
Chloe Wittenberg, MIT postdoc and recent alumna in political science, studies the powers of video-based political content in comparison to text-based content. Her research home is in the Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL) at MIT.
As a social media user, you can be eager to share content. You can also try to judge whether it is true or not. But for many people it is difficult to prioritise both these things at once. That’s the conclusion of a new experiment led by MIT scholars, which finds that even considering whether