What are some problems or issues you think exist when it comes to the general public and scientific information?

Read a current NEWS ARTICLE about any Psychology study (not a blog post that covers several studies) and evaluate how it describes the study and results of the ORIGINAL peer-reviewed journal article. Then simply answer the 8 questions below.
Note: You NEED to make sure that you can find FULL TEXT of the original peer-reviewed journal article because you will be
comparing them.

Questions:
#1. Was it difficult to find the full-text PDF of the original journal article that the news article you chose was describing? (~1-3 sentences)

#2. What are some problems or issues you think exist when it comes to the general public and scientific information?
(~1-3 sentences)

#3. What steps do you think should be taken to better increase the access to and understanding of scientific information? What about steps to decrease the spread of misinformation? (~1-3 sentences)

#4. If you were a researcher, what concerns would you have about making your research materials and data publicly available
online? (~1-3 sentences)

#5. If you were a journal editor, what percentage of your journal would you want to devote to studies of new research questions versus replications of previously published studies? (~1-3 sentences)

#6. Write a summary of the news article describing the Psych study (what they are reporting, claiming, etc.) and include a link to the news article. (~1 paragraph)

#7. Write a summary of the ORIGINAL peer-reviewed empirical journal article (what they did and found etc.) and provide a citation for the journal article (~1 paragraph)

#8. CRITICALLY compare the way the author of the news article described the findings vs way the authors of the journal article described findings.
Was it accurate? Inaccurate? Incomplete? Misleading? How so? Was the description accurate but the headline was a misleading clickbait headline?

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