PSY 0006 Langston University News Articles Evaluation Task
Description
For this task, you will read three news articles (hyperlinks provided below for the articles choose 3 of the 4) intended for a general audience reporting the results from correlational studies. For each of the articles, you will answer the following questions and provide justifications for your answers:
- Provide a brief summary of the topic of the article.
- Determine which variables are the focus of the research.
- Describe how the results of the correlational analyses are presented.
- Does the author of the article present the results as causal? In other words, does the author make statements that one variable causes the other?
- Can you think of any additional variables that were not included in this study that may be important to consider? Please describe the variables.
- Based on what you know about correlational research, does it make sense to make lifestyle changes based on the research presented in this article? Please explain your answer.
- Did the news article accurately represent the research conducted? Please explain your answer.
Resource Links:
https://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/jared-bunch…
https://senseaboutscienceusa.org/causation-vs-corr…
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