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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I did not lump the overstating of the researchers with the overstating of the BBC article and I did not single out the article author. I did criticize the BBC.
I am sure there have been plenty of studies on the impact of headlines on what readers (as a whole) take away from an article, and I doubt that it has been shown to be negligible.
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Headline-writers are paid to hook readers. Their effect on what readers think the article is about is probably not a priority when writing the headlines. That's why the headline should be irrelevant when discussing the article and the experiment. I agree with criticizing the way headlines sometimes pervert the news, though.