The Dangers of Fad Psychology with Jesse Singal
Minds and Mics
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Don't Cherry Pick Individual Studies Just Because Some Blog Post Mentions One Study
If you're going to tell readers this notion of human nature is particularly exciting, how many studies do you have behind that? I'm not sure science journalists should be jumping onto every new TED Talk trend and aggressively covering those exciting early studies. We know studies are often very low quality and these have shown to be because they don't replicate.
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