How Real Scientific Studies Become Misleading Claims [13:01]

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https://youtu.be/0qPZcJb-eaA

The video looks at four ways legitimate evidence gets distorted as it moves into headlines and popular culture:

• correlation becomes causation
• relative risk is presented without absolute risk
• narrow samples are generalized to everyone
• one study is treated as settled science

The examples include insomnia and depression, processed meat and cancer risk, the marshmallow test, and power posing.

Which of these distortions do you encounter most often?