Fox News hosts have measurable effect on COVID cases, study finds
Apr 2020, Ars Technica
The study comes from a group of researchers led by the University of Chicago's Leonardo Bursztyn and uses survey data gathered in April from 1,045 regular viewers of Fox News (aged 55 and over) to examine the timing of behavioral changes in response to the virus—when people began to cancel travel, isolate, increase the frequency of hand-washing, and so on.
Survey participants who preferred watching the alarmed newscaster began changing their behavior on average three days earlier than other Fox News viewers. Meanwhile, participants who preferred the more languid newscaster acted much later — five days after other Fox News viewers, and eight days after alarmed viewers.
I think the key word here is "alarm"?
And the above unrelated image is not a tree being struck by lightning, it's a synthetic light painting.
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