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> I don't have much of an idea on how they plan to quantify doomscrolling via attention or audio events.

It seems that what they’ve done is told us exactly what data they will collect but have left it unanswered as to what specific social science methodologies they will use to analyze the data.

It is very likely that their intention is to not set that expectation with the data crowdsourcers so that the researchers have the flexibility to adjust their methodological approaches in an iterative fashion.



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