Read the corresponding media article associated with this topic/study
The media piece attached to this original research will have attempted to disseminate the central
importance of the study. Your job will be to critique how well the media article did or did not represent
the study. You will evaluate how well the media piece describes the study and characterizes the study’s
main findings. You will also evaluate the media piece’s biases, if there are any. Some of the following
questions might help to guide your critique:
• What did the journalist get right?
• What did the journalist get wrong, and why?
• What might the journalist have said differently?
• If the journalist made any causal claims, were they accurate?
• Did the journalist focus on the same key finding as the scientists did?
