Harvard psychologist Samuel A. Mehr takes major news media outlets to task for their coverage of a study on the cognitive benefits of music for children. He then reviews other news coverage of music cognition research and finds two types of common errors: "Whose fault is all this? Are journalists sensationalizing our findings to garner page-views and sell papers, or are scientists exaggerating the importance of their own work? I speculate that the answer is 'both.'"
July 17, 2015
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