exam article said you get autism from watching tv....

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ok so i did one of three english exams a couple days ago it was mainly about understanding article's, one of these article's was about a researcher saying that children watching tv get all kinds of negative effects and one of these was that they could get Autism.

Then there was this question asking if the writer of the article had stated that this researcher was a believable scientist.
I answered No i thought no way that this is a credible researcher. and later when i checked the answers online it said that this was indeed a well known researcher.
I am going to put in a complaint about this but what annoys me is that this exam was given to a big number of students.

the original article came from the times newspaper it said at the bottom of the page. most articles that we used for practice for this exam came from the times and they never contained any false information like this.

also i saw a program on tv the day before the exam with a guy that had classical autism and when he was asked what autism was he said it was somekind of mental disorder.

these are my first two experiences with bad autism publicity, ive probably seen some before but i wasnt aware of what it whas then because i wasnt diagnosed and you never hear anything about it if you dont go looking for it.

It was probably just written for the exam, I wouldn't bother reacting, I wouldn't care as long as I passed the exam.

No, no - they use geniune articles. It would be worse in my opinion if it were just written for the exam.

The media is horrible. I feared being given an article that upset me to anaylse for my English GCSE because I knew some stuff would cause me to freak out and not answer the questions very well.

Well, the question was "Did the writer of the article STATE that the researcher was a credible scientist?".

Not "Is the researcher using credible science practices?"

These kind of questions are used to test analytical ability in the face of emotional responses and/or lousy base theory.

An example of this would be if they were to give you an article about women being more likely to be welfare recipients than men.

If the question asked "Did the writer of the article seem to agree that women are lazier than men?", some people might mis-interpret the question as "Are women lazier than men?", and answer incorrectly due to emotional response.