Data issues in that paper that claims that TikTok and Instagram have consumption spillovers that lead to negative utility | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
A professor of economics sends an email with subject line “Influential zombie paper” and the following content: This might be of interest to your blog, within the topics (i) that measurement and data quality are central and (ii) media hype of sexy results. There’s a paper that claims to present evidence that the users of social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok are harmed by using them, but because everybody else is using them, they would be harmed even more if they stopped using them unilateral
