Homework: Evaluate News Articles
For this task, you will read three news articles intended for a general audience reporting the results from correlational studies. You can find the links to these articles under your weekly resources. For each of the articles, you will answer the following questions and provide justifications for your answers:
1) Provide a brief summary of the topic of the article.
2) Determine which variables are the focus of the research.
3) Describe how the results of the correlational analyses are presented.
4) Does the author of the article present the results as causal? In other words, does the author make statements that one variable causes the other?
5) Can you think of any additional variables that were not included in this study that may be important to consider? Describe the variables.
6) Based on what you know about correlational research, does it make sense to make lifestyle changes based on the research presented in this article? Please explain your answer.
7) Use one of the news articles to locate, and then read the primary source article in the NCU library. Did the news article accurately represent the research conducted? Please explain your answer.
Length: 4-5 pages.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.