Table 3. Total number of news articles with and without external expert quotes and exaggerated or not - in total 194 news articles of this sample were not applicable (e.g. contained no statement of cause).
The relative odds that an article without an external expert quote contains an exaggeration of causality is 2.6 (95%: 1.1-6.3).
| News article
exaggerated |
News article not
exaggerated |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No external expert quote | 172 (28.1%) | 440 (71.9%) | 612 |
| External expert quote | 6 (13.0%) | 40 (87.0%) | 46 |
| Total | 178 | 480 | 658 |