[rcme]

> my hypothesis is stress is high in society and there are many unknown effects.

Exactly. You have a prior hypothesis about stress. This article makes a brief mention of stress and you take it as evidence of your hypothesis even though the article doesn’t support that at all.

[LesZedCB]

here's the paper cited in the article..?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90980-3

my point is, I'm not a scientist, so pointing out a bias (in my case a preconceived speculation) won't change my methodology for a future study. you're just going "nuh uh" with nothing else to say.

I am creating a narrative, and based on the discussion from my comment, it was exactly the narrative I wanted to provide.