A TikTok tale
How a well-meaning TikTok disrupted 4,600 studies
More or Less · BBC Radio 4
November 21, 20218m 58s
Show Notes
Nowadays if you are an academic and who needs some participants for a study you go online, but over the summer academic studies were inundated with participants who all happened to be teenage girls ... we explore how one TikTok can tip the balance of data gathering.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Chris Flynn
(Image: TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone screen/Getty/NurPhoto/contributor)