Eight tips for judging scientific studies

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From the Journalist's Resource project at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, Justin Feldman explains how to make sense of scientific research: "Before journalists write about research and speak with authors, they should be able to both interpret a study's results and understand the appropriate degree of skepticism that a given study finding warrants," Feldman writes. He includes, for example, an explanation of the difference between dependent and independent variables.

June 3, 2014

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