I would say anecdotal. This hasn't been my case across four universities and ten years.
The actual papers don't overhype. But the university PR's regarding those papers? They can really overhype the results. And of course, the media then takes it up an extra order of magnitude.
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The actual papers don't overhype. But the university PR's regarding those papers? They can really overhype the results. And of course, the media then takes it up an extra order of magnitude.