"It's not clear, for example, whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born with certain brain types watch more porn"
So, it might not be messing with your head. Link-baity headline.
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It looks as if headlines of the form "x may be y" fall under Betteridge's law of headlines.
And sample size of 64, too! The interesting thought here is not the result but how such BS is published in the JİAM Journal or reported by the (relatively) serious Reuters. The answer is: people like to see confirmation of their beliefs, true or not. This positive result bias in research has been idetified as a major problem byany researchers.
I dunno, seems pretty honest to me. It's what they concluded, isn't it? A correlation that should be further studied.
Yes, the article is honest, and the correlation probably merits further study. But the headline, while technically not incorrect, is a sneaky way of summarizing the findings to try and drive traffic to the article.
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Might not be messing with both heads, anyway.