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Case Study: Choose one of the following two articles. The articles are available on Course Reserve, which can be accessed using the Library Resources widget on the Course Home page. After reading the article carefully, write a short summary (500 words, or 1 page typed single-spaced) introducing the topic and research question, then describing the sample characteristics (e.g., age, gender), methodology (correlation, experiment, longitudinal), measures, and main results. Note any limitations of the research design or analysis. Prepare the summary as if you were writing for a lay audience-that is, for people who have no prior knowledge of psychology or research methods. You will need to decide which details are necessary and which details are either irrelevant or too complicated for your audience to understand the research. Don't worry about statistics you don't understand; focus on the summary of the results written in words.

One of the articles has 23 pages and the other is 13 pages. Don't let that fool you! The two articles have roughly equal word count. The different font and formatting makes them appear to be unequal length.

Next, read the short online magazine article written about your chosen research article. In a few paragraphs (again, less than 500 words), comment on the accuracy of the journalist's reporting compared to your own reading of the original journal article. The following questions are intended to help guide your commentary, but feel free to choose which ones you think are most relevant to your article and/or add others.

Question 1: Did the journalist leave out any information you think would be important to understanding the implications of the study?

Question 2: Were any statements in the magazine article misleading?

Question 3: Did the journalist imply causation when the data didn't support it?