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Identifying misleading science headlines
We talked a bit about how science headlines can be misleading, and how in some cases they don't accurately represent the research that was conducted. For this assignment, you will examine a science headline yourself and identify how and why it might be misleading.
Pick one of the headlines below and think about the impression the headline creates when taken at face value. Then read the article, which goes a bit more in-depth about how the related study was conducted.
Indicate the headline you chose and then discuss what impressions a reader of the headline might get from it and how this might influence their behavior. Then, discuss at least 2 reasons why the headline is misleading. You can discuss things like the study design used, the methodology of the study, etc.
Should be a minimum of 250 words, excluding references. Do not use any direct quotes for this assignment.
Tips for citing: When you're citing a website, an author may not be listed. If there is no author (only come to this conclusion if you've searched the webpage exhaustively), you can replace the author's name with the organization's name. Thus, your in-text citation might look like this: (CDC, 2015). To write a reference for a website, you can follow this structure:
Author. (Year, month published if available). Title of article. Retrieved from URL (write the URL the article was retrieved from).