Priya Nandakumar is the reason our claims have links under them. Her background is in research librarianship, and she treats sourcing as the actual product: she pulls the official pricing and platform facts straight from the source, finds the studies on self-monitoring and adherence when a piece leans on them, and reads them closely enough to stop us overstating what they say. She is openly skeptical of citation laundering — secondhand summaries dressed up as evidence — so she points us at originals and flags when a popular claim turns out to rest on thinner ground than people assume. She also keeps us honest about sample bias: a loud subreddit is not the whole world, and she makes sure we say so.
Priya Nandakumar
Research Editor · Sourcing, official specs & the research behind the claims
Background in health-research librarianship; handles our citations
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