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Regardless of the subject, this article is superbly written and a great example of how to cover psychology articles as a reporter. Instead of simply stating th
by metamemetics 16y ago
Regardless of the subject, this article is superbly written and a great example of how to cover psychology articles as a reporter.
Instead of simply stating the most headling grabbing implication of the research and leaving it at that, it went in depth to show the "what if" questions researchers controlled for rather than leaving us to guess or hunt down a copy of the real research paper (the reader is lazy, were not going to do it). Hopefully we get more submissions likes this when it comes to psychology articles and less 'scientist found X, the end'
- Deestan 16y agoI was genuinely thrilled that the article brought up the points about causality vs. correlation. Then I was sad, because it reminded me how rare it is. Almost every news article about research I've read the past 20 years has been of the form "Scientists have found that X causes Y, and here is the correlation along with some uneducated speculation."
- AmberShah 16y agohttp://xkcd.com/552/ http://xkcd.com/552/