How is the press release "To trust or not to trust? Selective trust in kids is more complex than it looks" misrepresent findings of the original article "Susceptibility to Being Lured Away by a Stranger: A Real-World Field Test of Selective Trust in Early Childhood" 

 

1. Does the press release make factual mistakes concerning the characteristics of the sample (e.g., sample size, participant age, etc.)?

2. Does the press release make factual mistakes concerning the results of the study?
3. Does the press release make causal claims from data that, in the original journal article, are only correlational?
4. Does the press release make an exaggerated claim about the research; a claim that is too strong or that goes "beyond the data"? For instance, does the press release exaggerate the results by making it sound as though there were bigger differences between the groups of people tested in the study than there actually were? Alternatively, are claims made in the press release about a population that was not studied in the original journal article?
5. Are there any warning signs of pseudoscience or bias in the press release?
6. Are there any other ways in which the press release is misleading? Do you think the press release is an accurate summary of the original research paper? If not, why not?