Publications by authors named "Robin Audy"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates the accuracy of health-related information shared on social media, focusing on the causal inferences made in both academic articles and media reports about health outcomes from 2015.
- - Researchers analyzed the most shared media articles and their corresponding academic studies, finding that a significant portion of both used overly strong causal language despite many studies having low strength of inference due to issues like omitted confounders and generalizability.
- - The findings revealed that 34% of academic studies and 48% of media articles overstated causal relationships, with 58% of media articles inaccurately representing the studies they discussed, highlighting a potential source of misinformation in health communication.
We evaluated a program of payments for ecosystem services in Uganda that offered forest-owning households annual payments of 70,000 Ugandan shillings per hectare if they conserved their forest. The program was implemented as a randomized controlled trial in 121 villages, 60 of which received the program for 2 years. The primary outcome was the change in land area covered by trees, measured by classifying high-resolution satellite imagery.
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