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Sure, The Daily Mail, just like any other mainstream news source creates sensationalist headlines to shock you into reading. That doesn't make the studies cited
by tcdent 16y ago
Sure, The Daily Mail, just like any other mainstream news source creates sensationalist headlines to shock you into reading. That doesn't make the studies cited any less accurate. Nor should it prevent us from having an on-topic conversation about something more in-depth.
- bruceboughton 16y agoThe Daily Mail is more than just sensationalist. Not quite as bad as today's Daily Express headline though: http://www.express.co.uk/ourpaper/view/2010-07-08 http://www.express.co.uk/ourpaper/view/2010-07-08
- nevinera 16y ago>That doesn't make the studies cited any less accurate. No, but it does make it statistically more likely that they are inaccurate. It's known as 'study selection bias'.
- joe_the_user 16y agoStatistics should only be applied to fairly uniform and understandable phenomena. Applying statistical likelihood in this instance is stretching the bounds of statistics considerably more than The Daily Mail stretched them.
- nevinera 16y agoNo, applying statistical methods to this instance is unreasonable. Observing that selection bias skews the probabilities involved is perfectly reasonable, and indeed almost necessary to rational discussion.