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Megan McArdle says that journalism's embrace of drama is partly to blame for that now-discredited study of same-sex marriage acceptance: "We reward people not for digging into something interesting and emerging with great questions and fresh uncertainty, but for coming away from their investigation with an outlier — something really extraordinary and unusual. When we do that, we're selecting for stories that are too frequently, well, incredible."

May 25, 2015

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