The article itself is over a decade old and based on questionable data gathering and a faulty analysis processes. If you read the article they published they essentially didn’t find anything, determined without providing evidence that other factors couldn’t be a determining factor, and then data-dredging when they could find anything statistically significant to match their hypothesis.
SkeptVet article explaining the findings in detail.
Basically it was just shitty science.
Studies like this have me confused.
How do we know they use the magnetic field, and don’t just like… Look at the sun, or the shadows it casts.
You can put magnets near dogs.
There’s also this thing called “indoors”
I dont think there are many scenarios where a dog frequently shits inside a human dwelling. It is a valid point though, perhaps they tested that too (dogshit smells in an enclosed space, gotta envy those researchers)
The text in the picture literally explains it’s in a free roaming environment not influenced by walls or doors.
