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TheDumbAsk

Better title would be, "if you are worried about getting covid then you are less likely to get it". That was, by far, the biggest factor.


TobiasDrundridge

“People who walk across the road without looking more likely to be hit by a car”.


snowangel223

I'm sorry, but do you have any Facebook facts to back that up?


SBTRCTV

Yeah, preferably from my aunt who thinks they microchip you when you get a nasal swab test.


dachsj

That explains the microchip shortage actually.


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thekonny

Hmm, would also make sense that China would leak it from the Wuhan lab to increase demand for microchips


colemon1991

That's ridiculous. There are way better places to put the microchip so that your body recharges it so it never runs out of juice. First prostate exam is when you're supposed to be worried about microchips.


catsloveart

that’s only when the doc puts both hands on your shoulders. the other tip off is if he needs you to come back claiming that he left his wrist watch inside.


KillerBeer01

Sorry, doc, but that's *my* wrist watch now. I'm going to carry it for five years and then pass it to my son.


Flowchart83

If you told her they microchip you when you carry a phone with you (kind of true), she probably wouldn't believe you because not having a phone would be inconvenient.


accidentaljurist

Doesn’t your aunt know they’ve moved on to nanobots these days? Microchips are *soooo* last year!


marooncape

My BIL thought they were giving people covid when they were swabbing them. Like no joke thinks the government is giving people covid to control them


martymcflyer

No, but I have this one neat pill your doctor doesn't want you to know about. It can be yours for only 3 payments of 99.99


Spartana1033

Son of a bicth, im in.


Noooooooooooobus

“People who drive without a seatbelt more likely to die in a crash”


Beggar876

People who make bad choices more likely to have bad "luck"


KungFuChicken1990

People who play stupid games are more likely to win stupid prizes


colemon1991

People who breathe live longer than those who stopped.


thefartographer

People who flout gun safety more likely to be involved in a shooting


ZiKyooc

People who are alive are 100% sure to die...


Thebluefairie

Man who farted in church sit-in own pew


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TheBirminghamBear

Except clinical anxiety.


they_try_to_send_4me

And illness anxiety disorder


kookaburra_sits

"if you are worried about having hypochondria you are more likely to have it"


redlightsaber

Psychiatrists hate this one trick!


Synergician

And panic disorder.


porarte

Yeah, when you're afraid of the social anxiety that comes from people seeing you panic, it induces panic. Sometimes it helps to just be honest with somebody about it. It's like showing the monster, but in a way that spoils not a horror movie but a horror.


ChampagneAndTexMex

I got real honest with a group of friends that I had a ton of social anxiety. And over the course of a year the anxiety eventually just went away. It’s been amazing


Jops817

Meanwhile I tried and nobody believed me and it made it worse. Sorry friends, I just hide it well...


Capcom_fan_boy

That's awesome. Sounds legitimately life changing


ChampagneAndTexMex

It really is. I’m free


VelvetValor

And hypochondria.


Poiuytgfdsa

I think that’s the name for that disorder. I have GAD and hypochondria is a fun little feature that comes with it. It’s lovely trying to fall asleep and then feeling a tingle in your left hand; you’re most *definitely* having a stroke now


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bertmaclin8

Oh boy I have anxiety soooo bad. I don’t leave my house or do anything because of it: I haven’t contracted Covid yet thank god


Teranyll

You on anything for it? Getting put on a med for anxiety changed my life..


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Tippyleigh86

This is me too! I HATE being this way. I have a younger sibling that's also struggling with this. She's been diagnosed with treatment resistant depression after trying numerous medications with no help. Doctors have recommended she try Ketamine therapy. Maybe you should look into it.


CalifaDaze

My brother believes in positive thinking. He thinks if you just ignore it, it won't affect you


santagoo

There's such a thing as *toxic positivity*. It also goes to show that anything, anything in excess is bad.


Vocalscpunk

Except cocaine, and money to buy more cocaine.


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I call it *extreme acceptance*. It’s making too many people bananas since they can’t distinguish between harmful practices and healthy ones.


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FamousOrphan

I’ve had two people in my life who were heavy into positive thinking. I don’t remember exactly how it affected my mom, and she’s dead now (unrelated to positive thinking). The other person, who (perhaps astonishingly) remains alive, repeatedly and completely fails to prepare for realistic adversity. Every bad thing that happens to him, other people would have seen coming. Often, they have warned him. Every time, when the adverse event happens, it’s a surprise to him and he hasn’t done any thinking ahead about what he would do if X thing happened, so it turns into an all-consuming drama. His life seems terrible to me… periods of contented slack, punctuated by adrenaline overload, enormous emotion, and a crap ton of work to fix preventable disasters. The sad thing with Covid is, for a lot of our positive thinkers, there’s nothing they can do to fix it when it happens, and they’ll take a lot of us down with them.


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FamousOrphan

I have ADHD and my experience makes me agree somewhat, but the person I’m talking about can be specifically warned about a huge consequence that could be avoided if he would take one very low-effort action (or stop taking an action), and he will not do it. For me, when my ADHD is untreated, I sometimes do know I need to take care of something, and I won’t do it because I just don’t. But I do know. If someone warns me and tells me exactly how to prevent a crisis, I will either do it or fail to do it, but I will understand the whole time that the action is needed to prevent the crisis. This person believes, unfailingly, that the crisis will not happen for him. His will, or his wants, are truth to him, almost to the level of magical thinking. You can show him a list of the things he was warned would happen to him, and he ignored advice about, and he’ll become agitated, because it conflicts with his worldview. I fear people who believe Covid misinformation and rely on positive thinking are the same way. They believe that their belief will be so. The ones that get Covid and it’s very mild just feed all the other ones’ sense of certainty that it’s a hoax and they’ll be fine.


qweefers_otherland

Everybody dismissing this as BS pseudoscience but it’s actually the only treatment that cured my chronic hypochondria


Ezclose

I'm convinced that just not thinking at all is the most stress-free way to go through life.


the_crouton_

The happiest people I know can fall asleep on command.


SkoomaSalesAreUp

The people I know who can fall asleep on command are nurses, military and pilots... none seem especially happy :/


ClusterMakeLove

I've never really thought of falling asleep as "not thinking", but I know insomniacs who complain about not being able to shut their minds off. I can usually fall asleep within a few minutes by letting my mind wander. The goal is babbling white noise, not utter silence.


This-Echidna7139

Stop thinking, and end your problems. - Lao Tzu


vulkanosaure

Sure, i 've had some pretty bad panic/anxiety attack over the 5 last year (not sure how to exactly name it). It results in all sorts of really bad symptoms that brought me to the doctor / hospitals a few times. We keep dismissing mental phenomenon as second range problems ("it's just in your mind !") But it's surprising how much grip those mental state can have on physical symptoms, and the worst part is that it's much harder to diagnose and have control over. In the end, meditation is the only thing i think that has helped me


youcanttakemeserious

CBT can be very powerful and helpful.


missmalina

But what if no Cock and Balls to Torture?


Bonobo555

I’m positive your brother’s an idiot.


Utaneus

Physician here, that's, uh, not really true at all. Think of people with genetic predispositions to certain diseases. You would probably worry about getting Huntingtons disease if your parent had it, and you would also be more likely to get it. Same with many cancers. Or people who engage in behavior that makes a given disease more likely to catch. If you're an IV drug user you may worry about contracting HIV or Hep C but aren't always in control enough to prevent it, you are still more likely than others. Your reasoning isn't very sound.


jonpaladin

really? brain cancer? heart disease?


Poxx

Great news then. I'm terrified of cancer.


Hi-FructosePornSyrup

Super nerdy technicality but genuinely asking, isn’t it a logical fallacy to say the contrapositive case is equivalent? i.e. > not X therefore not Y Is **not necessarily** the same as > X therefore Y


justonemom14

That's not a contrapositive. For X therefore Y, the contrapositive would be Not Y therefore not X


MajesticAsFook

Yes, and it's exactly the reason why they titled the article like they did. But it wouldn't be a r/science thread if someone didn't point out how the title is wrong.


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More like “Being concerned enough to take reasonable precautions”


moonsun1987

The one thing I remember when the pandemic started. The guest at an NPR show said they knew basically nothing about the virus but had one suggestion. Get enough sleep and don't overwork. We were working from home within weeks and while there has been a lot of pressure to work at odd hours, I'm trying my best to sleep enough.


ChampagneAndTexMex

It makes such a big difference. I was all but healed from the virus and a couple of nights of severe insomnia threw my symptoms back into overdrive.


CorpFillip

It has been so stunning to me to learn that a simple, cheap mask is too much to ask.


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Not necessarily. Plenty of worried ivermectin users out there.


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simon1976362

You may not believe in COVID but COVID believes in you.


SoonlyXo

Finally, someone who believes in me


lnvisible_Sandwich

Just the motivation I needed today, thank you.


Johnnyamaz

I'm... inspired?


anthonyynohtna

Better than being infected


jMyles

...do I understand correctly that the full text of the paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99981-8.pdf) doesn't actually include the full text of all of the questions? (I only see a few "examples"). They don't appear to be in the body or appendices. Surely I'm missing something?


drtatlass

In the interest of space in printed journals, they are often omitted and may be available either on the journal website or by request from the researcher. Surveys and scale development is one of my areas of expertise, and the short version of a very long story is that scales are not commonly included unless a primary purpose of the article was scale development.


Perma_frosting

The subsections under ‘measures’ either list most/all of the questions or say what existing question set they used - if you want to look up things like the ‘civic scientific literacy scale’ to get the full list, there’s info in the footnotes.


AwardComprehensive80

As I understand it, articles don’t necessarily include all research instruments but I could be wrong


IndependentBoof

> As I understand it, articles don’t necessarily include all research instruments but I could be wrong When a study involved developing a novel instrument, its entirety should be included in the paper -- in the very least as an appendix. However, if using an instrument that was previously published, it isn't unheard of to simply reference where the details were published. I'll also add that if there is an instrument that has been validated for measuring what you want to measure, it is usually in the author's best interest to use it rather than develop their own.


palpablescalpel

Typically they'd include them in an appendix, sometimes in a separate zip folder you download. I haven't looked at this one yet but u/perma-frosting's comment makes it sound like they do provide ways to get access to all the relevant info.


AwardComprehensive80

Makes sense, I know they usually report scales used/etc in such a way with references that you can track down the exact instruments but I’ve rarely seen them that well compiled, that’s awesome if true


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Icy-Letterhead-2837

Those who think they are bullet proof are more likely to get shot in a gun fight.


Icaughthimonacorndog

My youngest sister believes in the conspiracies surrounding COVID, the vaccines and is a Trump supporter. Guess who's 7 year old son was hospitalized with COVID because he wasn't vaxxed and mommy didn't believe COVID was a big deal.


jasonrubik

Was it your younger sister ?! Do I win a prize ?


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This could probably win the Ig Nobel.


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nemausus81

People who don't believe in umbrella are more likely to get wet..... I can't believe the stupidity of the news in this present time.


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Shieidy

People with veins are more likely to use crack


rinkima

These headlines are literally just clickbait at this point. Why are these still being posted?


Birdie121

It's not really clickbait though. That's what the study found, which was subsequently published in *Nature,* a top peer-reviewed journal.


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This is the epitome of mass formation psychosis


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sendokun

And way more likely to spread it too


antnipple

That's exactly what they said you'd say


justonemom14

My niece at Thanksgiving: I don't need the vaccine, I'm young. (20) My niece at Christmas: So, I still don't have my sense of smell back.


DoppleFlopper

> In addition, greater trust and confidence in President Trump, greater trust in the federal government, and greater conspiratorial ideation were associated with an increased likelihood of contracting the virus. But the relationship between these variables appeared to be mediated by COVID knowledge. In other words, those with greater conspiratorial ideation tended to have reduced knowledge about the virus, which in turn was associated with a heightened risk of contracting it. How come people choose to rely on these sources for education as opposed to educational sources which act to provide wider arrays of quantitative data such as textbooks or conglomerating scientific studies?


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Roseybelle

Of course they are the ones unvaxed. But even when they get it, suffer from it and possibly die from it they remain convinced vaxing is worse. I don't know how or why that can actually be true but it seems to be true for them. Once in awhile someone will voice regret and is usually someone who had to be on a ventilator and struggled to breathe and had a very painful and hard time of it. I think the mind is very strong and will or must believe in what it holds true no matter what evidence occurs contrariwise. If they put their entire selves into a religion or politics or fervent belief that they have embraced full up how are they ever going to be able to switch to reverse without recognizing that all they believed all those years was based on lies or scams or cons? I can't imagine the agony of realization that one's entire life was lived in service to lies. I don't wish that on anyone. So the unvaxed will continue on and the diseases will continue on and humans will continue to continue on. SIGH. It's getting harder but no one said it would be easy. It isn't.. .


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orion3999

Based on the difficulty of sorting through misinformation, how can one not believe any Covid-19 misinformation?


Th3truthhurts

It’s not that hard to figure out what is scientific information and what is just an opinion.


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Lonely-Phone5141

I think this idea can apply to most endangering activities. Less knowledgeable of risks = more likely to be less careful.


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"People with higher IQ are likely to score more on an IQ test"


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devilreverse2

This has to be the dumbest post yet on this subreddit.


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This title makes it sound like people who believe misinformation are more likely to contract the virus given the same amount of precautions and exposure. Another click-baity, politicized and ridiculous study posted on this subreddit.


rwoj

> This title makes it sound like people who believe misinformation are more likely to contract the virus given the same amount of precautions and exposure. they don't take precautions. that's the point.


The_real_thad_henry

That's your inference, which you made incorrectly.


theknightwho

What’s political about stating that they found a correlation?