On stories ranging from the value of naps to the ministrations of adoptive parents, it has not been a terrific week for the sober reporting of scientific data.
Then again, it rarely is.
The week started on a suitably flat foot for data reporting when the Sunday New York Times published a piece by its ombudsman criticizing the paper for a Jan. 16 story that said that, apparently for the first time, more American women were living without a husband than with one.
Our internal advice at the time was for ABC News to steer clear of it, because it wasn't reflected in our own survey data or in our reading of the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
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