https://www.foxnews.com/health/study-older-adults-…
Use the both the popular media news article and the corresponding empirical article to answer the following questions.
Determine whether the study is correlational or experimental.
What were the main variables?
What was the key finding or findings?
What theory do the findings support?
Give an analysis of how well the journalist covered the journal article. Try to
make at least three significant points.What did the journalist get right?
What did the journalist get wrong, and why?
Were any causal claims made by the journalist accurate? Did the journalist focus on the same key finding as the scientists did?
Did the journalist accurately describe the procedures of the study?
Did the journalist leave details out?
How could the journalist have improved their reporting of the
findings?
Share your news article and empirical article with the group and report what you found. Answer the questions above.
Reply to two of your peer’s posts with the following… comment on their findings.
were you surprised by what they found?
did you notice anything that they didn’t?