What kind of claim (e.g., associational/correlational versus causal) is being made regarding the issues in the news? What were the researchers’ actual findings in the studies being reported (i.e., what specific link did they find between the variables studied)? How might the reporting about these findings either mislead or help readers understand the relationship between variables in these studies? Is there a problem with concluding that one thing leads to another? Can you make a case that the causality between these variables could reasonably go in the other direction? Or be explained by third variables?