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please respond to the following discussion post as a peer commenting on the post.Due to Americas demand towards instant results and instant information, the use of media outlets has increased. Media outlets provide the US population information of the world around them, and although it does not specifically tell us what to think, it plays an important role in identifying what issues we pay attention to. It is known that the if a certain topic is receiving a lot of news coverage there is a higher chance that the public would consider it a larger concern to themselves or others (National Academies Press (US), 2002). Although media outlets can be beneficial to promote awareness and use of comparative quality reports, there can be many down falls as well. Media outlets can report false information and propaganda.

Peer-reviewed research is a scholarly article that has been evaluated by other experts in that field, or is a journal that has been published by a university press, professional society, or scientific publisher (Columbia College Libraries, 2021). Understanding simple statistics from a result study allows the researcher to understand the basic features of the data in a study, which helps them determine the probability of a hypothesis being true or not. Simple statistics provide the research a summary of the sample and the measures being used. Simple statistics, is the basis of every quantitative analysis of data (Trochim, n.d).

Columbia College Libraries. (2021). Evaluating the Credibility of Your Sources. Columbia College and Columbia Engineering. https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/integrity/evaluat…

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century. The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century

Trochim, W. M. K. (n.d.). Descriptive Statistics. Research Methods Knowledge Base. https://conjointly.com/kb/descriptive-statistics/

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