Pick and reflect on an artifact that proves you have the skills, knowledge, and dispositions represented by the badge.
Required Artifact
- Read a popular news article or watch/listen to a news broadcast of a scientific study and assess whether it is a valid interpretation of the research by writing a critique comparing and contrasting the original research with the popular interpretation.
- Introduction
- Introduce the scientific study summarized in the popular news article.
- Construct a thesis that takes a position on the validity of what is communicated in the popular news article.
- Multiple body paragraphs providing evidence that supports your thesis.
- Your evidence may include:
- Conclusion validity
- Properly isolated variables
- The sample size appropriateness
- The sample selection appropriateness
- Conclusion
- Summarize the evidence you presented and how it supports your original thesis.
- Describe the significance of your critique of the popular news article.
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