They don't take into account the facts on the ground, or they habitually refer to their past experiences at other companies rather than to the people and events in the current organization, or perhaps they report to someone who's even more aggressive or overly optimistic than they are.
"They also tell us that many women feel uncomfortable talking about their situation, perhaps because they reported encountering sexist and ageist attitudes towards women, the menopause and female ageing in their workplaces," she said.
Unpublished reports which were older or came from other settings are more likely to have been missed, especially perhaps if they reported null or negative findings.
Nurses were especially concerned about social problems, perhaps because they reported spending more time providing informal counselling and so had greater opportunity to probe these issues.
Perhaps uncoincidentally, they report elsewhere that the Portuguese star's position in the squad is "no longer untouchable" and that the club are readying a move for Chelsea's Eden Hazard, who was phoned by Zinedine Zidane last week for an entirely-coincidental-honest-guv friendly chat.
Perhaps they are not reporting it.
The medias always give us half the story anyway, and perhaps they too, while reporting on the state of affairs, are missing the bigger picture.
Mountain gorilla numbers began declining much earlier than researchers have thought, about 100,000 years ago, perhaps because of climate change, they report online today in Science.
But as the BBC's Russian Service's Oleg Boldyrev reports, perhaps they could learn a thing or two from Domodedevo airport in Moscow, which manages to stay open despite enduring four months of snow and freezing temperatures.
A Liberal Democrat has recently been arrested for interfering with a minor – where is that in the press?" Well I'm sure that has been reported but perhaps they haven't contacted you for comment.
In univariate analysis, women and older people expressed the greatest interest in learning more about medicines R&D, despite, or perhaps because, they also reported the lowest knowledge levels (see online supplementary data 3 and figure S1).
