Ian Pitchford

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An audience may consider a message to be uninformative if it contains too many qualifications, and, as a result, a speaker may be inclined to omit them. This is often seen when scientific findings are reported in the news media: Promising developments are sometimes reported with important qualifications buried in remote parts of the text or omitted altogether.
Ian Pitchford
Media reporting of scientific findings omit qualifications because these are not seen as so important.
How We Know What Isn't So (A Psychological Study on Logic)
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