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26.2% of tweet authors presented themselves as science or medicine experts.
Practitioners should consider the credibility of sources when evaluating precision nutrition information on social media.
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About a quarter (132/504, 26.2%) of tweet authors presented themselves as science experts, medicine experts, or both.
Why this rating
Based on quantitative content analysis of tweets.
Source
Characterizing Precision Nutrition Discourse on Twitter: Quantitative Content Analysis (Preprint)
Sapna Batheja et al. · 2022
DOI 10.2196/preprints.43701
other · n=504
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