How to read a press release (Fallacy Files)

Interesting post from Fallacy Files. It shows how two completely accurate explanation of a study's finding can have a ver different impact on how it is interpreted by readers. From the post:

"One of the conventions of language use is that the order in which facts are related parallels the order in which they occurred. Another convention is that facts that are mentioned together should be relevant to one another, and a causal relationship is one form of relevance. For instance, "Mary got pregnant and got married" tells a very different story than "Mary got married and got pregnant". In the first case, you might well assume that the pregnancy causally contributed to Mary's decision to wed."