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Someone sends me an email, “I don’t know what to do with this so I thought I would send it to you,” with a link to a university press release about a recently published research paper, full of silly statistical errors and signifying nothing.
I replied:
Can’t you just ignore this? Why give it any attention at all? There are millions of research papers published every year, right? Why play the publicists’ game? Let’s just leave this sort of thing for NPR, the Huffington Post, and other purveyors of junk science headlines.
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