Step 2(media) is the absolute point of no return where anything resembling a scientific statement will become mangled beyond recognition

I can’t get past that p value! 😱

𝑝=0.56

Close enough! Publish it!

is there an English word for that thing in movies where a character starts out laughing and then suddenly it changes to crying?

Yes - the funniest part of the cartoon is the p value.

sadly true

Thanks Obama

I'm saving this.

thanks! Best laugh in a while

I love the whole series. It gave me very often something to laugh, something to relate to or the feeling of not being alone during my PhD time. We printed some of the most witty comics, cut them out and pinned them to our office door. They always made us feel better.

the first error is to p. Formalized belief is much easier on the news cycle.

U talkin bout AI research today?

All too true & funny!
Unfortunately, even some scientists conflate correlation with causation.

a FYI: a paper with data set, on where most of the distortion occurs, and what: D Wright, J Pei, D Jurgens, I Augenstein. Modeling Information Change in Science Communication with Semantically Matched Paraphrases. EMNLP’22 http://www.copenlu.com/publication/2022_emnlp_wright/. More in popsci article->tweet. The type of distortion: “Journalists tend to downplay the certainty and strength of findings from abstracts” and “limitations are more likely to be exaggerated and overstated”.

Haha! So great 🤗 I'm sending this to my sister. The Caltech queen will appreciate it.