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marilern1987 t1_jdw7b2r wrote

Reply to comment by dumnezero in Linguistic analysis of 177,296 Reddit comments sheds light on negative attitudes toward science by HeinieKaboobler

The problem is that there isn’t anything wrong with most of the studies, but HOW they are interpreted

A lot of things I see in this subreddit are legit - but the average person doesn’t always interpret it correctly.

For example: this past weekend, the article about birth control and breast cancer. Look at the comments on that post - a lot of the comments on that post failed to read the article, or interpret the results correctly. Meanwhile, birth control has been a known carcinogen for people with certain genetic makeups since 2007, but a lot of the comments were like “guess we’re screwed either way…”

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hellomondays t1_je0j6h2 wrote

Yeah, a lot of critical comments boil down to reading the abstract (at best) then not understanding the methodology section of a paper or being even aware of what limitations are or what the research question is and just saying something reductive and irrelevant about sample sizes or correlation fallacies.

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