Use one of these news articles and corresponding empirical articles (you might have to follow the link to the empirical article, copy the title and paste the title into the Google Scholar search bar to find the link BU has access to):
- https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/12/researchers-explore-how-climate-change-is-framed-on-social-media/
- https://www.insider.com/how-social-media-affects-body-image
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9002309/Spending-time-phone-isnt-bad-mental-health-scientists-say.html
(7 points)
a) What is the article about?
b) Who wrote it? Based on a quick Google (or other) search, do you think they are qualified to interpret the results of the study? Why or why not?
c) Did they report any descriptive statistics? If they did, how did they report the statistics?
d) What conclusions did they draw?
e) Which statistics (if any) did they use to support these conclusions? If they did not include statistics in their conclusions, explain why it might be a good idea to include them.
f) Did they address limitations to the study? Why do you think they did/did not address them?
g) Did they address any possible sampling error?
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