Interesting ! These pop articles are all the things we all learned in grad school aren't they ? It's all in the language to get yourself published...LOL ! And hey, it works so why would it end ? All those important words, the ones that get it published but they count on people not even taking into account: "in combination with", "may", "could substantially", "our review of the literature" (what literature ? By whom ? What was it objective or subjective ? How many subjects ? Control groups ? and on and on and on... we all know the drill if we've been through a grad program and especially doctoral studies). Other often used words and phrases: tend to suggest, shows a possible trend, may, could, models suggest IF...... fill in the blank for if, and the final all of these measures together have the "potential"... Maybe it would serve our country well if we considered teaching in high school, some of the critical analysis skills we (for some unclear reason ? ?) reserve only for a few M.S., M.A., M.B.A. students but teach to our Ph.D. students before they they undertake their research careers. Would certainly benefit our entire country of people had these critical skills just to live their everyday lives ! Take a close look at graphs you see in publications... just sayin'
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