A men's wellness company did a study saying women in the UK are less healthy than men; it put the UK’s ‘gender health gap’ as the worst among G20 countries, but the research wasn’t reliable. Despite this, many MPs, news outlets, and organisations across the country shared it widely.
We spoke to two independent experts who said this research doesn’t reliably measure people’s health. Emmanuelle Nunes from the Royal Statistical Society and Dr Saloni Dattani from Our World in Data both raised concerns.
It looks like the men’s wellness company Manual published what it called a study on the male health gap in 2020 - the earliest version we could find on its website. The study wasn’t peer-reviewed or published in any scientific journal.
We secured 21 corrections from prominent people or organisations as part of this investigation. Manual, the company behind the original research, told us in April that it had taken the study down, admitting it wasn’t done to professional research standards.
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