In some ways I wish that sample size and delta were manditory parts of these sorts of headlines.
Like "In a study of 900,000 people, those that drank their coffee were 5% more likely to develop esophageal cancer".
At very least it'd stop BS like "In a 10 rat study, peppermint oil cured cancer in 10% of the rats" or "Peppermint oil could cure cancer!" as a lot of scientific reporters would phrase it.
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In some ways I wish that sample size and delta were manditory parts of these sorts of headlines.
Like "In a study of 900,000 people, those that drank their coffee were 5% more likely to develop esophageal cancer".
At very least it'd stop BS like "In a 10 rat study, peppermint oil cured cancer in 10% of the rats" or "Peppermint oil could cure cancer!" as a lot of scientific reporters would phrase it.