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SkyMarshal on Jan 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

Same, lol. Everytime I see an article on HN, Reddit, or elsewhere saying 'Study shows... [fill in the blank]', I think that.

The MSM doesn't seem to grok that if a single, non-corroborated 'study' shows something, it's effectively noise, not news.

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