Eleanor Hayward,

Eleanor Hayward is the health editor at The Times. She reports from medical conferences around the world and covers all aspects of the NHS, focusing on key issues affecting patients. Eleanor has been working as a health journalist since 2019 after starting her career as a news reporter at Daily Mail.

Biography:  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/eleanor-hayward

72%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • People who maintain an active lifestyle have been found to be 42 per cent less likely to report difficulties falling asleep,

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • The title is deceptive as it implies that exercising twice a week will completely eliminate insomnia which is not true.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Persistently active participants were more likely to be men, younger and weigh slightly less than the other activity categories. Therefore, the researchers adjusted their results for age, sex, weight and smoking history.

Deceptions

75%

Examples:

  • The phrase 'At the end of the ten-year study period' creates a false sense of finality and completeness when in fact there are no details about what happened after this time frame.
  • The sentence 'People who maintain an active lifestyle have been found to be 42 per cent less likely to report difficulties falling asleep' is misleading because it implies that exercise alone can solve all insomnia problems.

Recent Articles

Exercise Reduces Risk of Insomnia by 42%: Study Finds

Exercise Reduces Risk of Insomnia by 42%: Study Finds

Broke On: Wednesday, 27 March 2024 Regular exercise significantly reduces the risk of insomnia, with individuals who exercised twice a week being 42% less likely to have trouble sleeping and 22% less likely to report any symptoms.