I discussed whether zero needs to be included on all scales in a recent post, ending by saying, “Not including zero in the baseline is one way to exaggerate a trend for those who don’t read labels ...

Are you prone to exaggerate? Exaggeration can be a helpful tool if you want to make a story funnier or more interesting, but the problem comes when you’ve expanded so much, and have lost whatever ...

Rob MacKenzie receives funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council, the European Research Council, and the JABBS Foundation. To exaggerate is human, and scientists are human. Exaggeration ...

AI tools overhype research findings far more often than humans, with a study suggesting the newest bots are the worst offenders—particularly when they are specifically instructed not to exaggerate.