This happens all the time, the media will find one aspect of a study and blast it from on high while ignoring any parts that hurt their agenda. A particularly

This happens all the time, the media will find one aspect of a study and blast it from on high while ignoring any parts that hurt their agenda. A particularly infamous example of this is studies of drug use by race: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/quicktables/quickconfig.do?34481-0001_all https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/quicktables/quickconfig.do?34481... You'll see news outlets claiming that black and white drug use rates are the same, but they're going off of the "Have use ever used X?" questions while completely ignoring the ones about how often they've used X, which shows a clear racial discrepancy. That's before you get into issues like the study being based on self reporting, or the vast majority of drug crimes that result in jail time being ones related to dealing and not mere use, etc.