What is a better term or qualification they could have used?

"Using smartphone surveys" is a pretty concise clarifier in the original title

Hmm OK. If it's just that, it's a little hard here to see what you imagine we might think from the headline otherwise? If the 'machine' above is just hypothetical, what else? Is it that we might think the 'Harvard study' in question is literally clairvoyant?

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loeg a day ago | parent [-]

> Is it that we might think the 'Harvard study' in question is literally clairvoyant?

Yes, that is a straightforward interpretation of the headline!

	▲	beepbooptheory a day ago \| parent [-]
		Haha well good looking out! The sensationalism of these pop sci articles is out of control!