In California and North Carolina, state officials
reporting headline results lumped together groups of students who either passed or nearly passed the tests.
Not exact matches
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA)
reported Q1
results after Wednesday's close but one aspect of the print appears to be dominating the
headlines.
A scientific paper declares positive
results for a trial of deutetrabenazine in Huntington's disease, but the
headlines report the FDA has rejected the drug.
In addition, a lack of data sharing leads to the inability to replicate
results, universities that want to make
headlines exaggerate findings, and the media's quest for ratings and readership often trumps quality
reporting.
in the first line... But these days even a well - timed joke may quickly be misconstrued and the
resulting litigation could take a big chunk out of our days... so we opted for a look at the real deal making all the
headlines: the recent news that Amazon and Goodreads will become bed fellows by the end of Q2 (Amazon bought Goodreads for a
reported $ 150 million).
Many of these
headlines have centered around toxic jerky treats imported from China that have
resulted in over 1,000 pet deaths and almost 5,000
reported cases of illnesses for both dogs and cats.
The Latin American Travel Association has revealed the
results of the 2017 LATA Travel Trends
Report, revealing, while Brexit has dominated the
headlines over the last year, it has not had an immediate impact on holiday bookings.
In summary, I would emphasise that the scientists and the actual papers discussed here and in the BBC documentary were not «alarmist», however there is a clear danger that when these
results get translated into media
reports (and
headlines) that scientifically unsupportable claims can be made.
Two stories this week, a paper in Nature (Stainforth et al, 2005) describing preliminary
results of the climateprediction.net experiments, and the Meeting the Climate Challenge
report from a high level political group have lead to dramatic
headlines.
Yes, it's true that the latest numbers are an improvement over a similar survey four years ago (which was also roughly in line with Gallup at the time, showing that 52 percent of respondents agree that humans are at least half - responsible for climate change), but the
headline result these
reports picked up on — that 96 percent of respondents think climate change is happening — is moot.
This lengthy local article,
headlined «Former officer Michael Slager sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting of Walter Scott,
reports on the
results of the judicial inquisition and ultimate sentencing decision.
Some media
reports on this research got this point wrong, such as Time, which ran the
headline «When Men Stop Seeking Beauty...» and summarized the
results as «the more equal men and women became, the less emphasis men placed on youth and beauty.»