• This post will give you hands-on experience evaluating a claim. For this assignment, you are going to:
  • Pick from the claim topics below, find a claim from a newspaper, magazine, online article, journal article, etc. This can be something you've always wondered, or it could be something you found interesting on social media, a news website, a blog, etc. It might be best to evaluate a claim related to your final project
  • Find two sources that support or refute your claim. One source must come from a journal article. The other can come from a product label, blog, newspaper article, etc.
  • Use the science versus pseudoscience table to comment on whether the claims are. scientific or pseudoscience

Claim Topics you can choose from

1. Impact of childhood trauma on adult mental health
2. social media usage influence on self-esteem
3. connection between music and mood regulation