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[Misleading] First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news (phys.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by somefool to c/science

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Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a "resilience" ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.

The paper

Edit: the article might be misrepresenting the study and its findings, so it's worth checking the paper itself. (See @realChem 's comment in the thread).

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[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I got 18/20, but also THEY DONT HAVE AN OPTION FOR AUSTRALIA! What kind of survey has Austria and Azerbaijan but not Australia. Seriously. And you Americans love a binary scale of political preference. At least it wasn’t a required question.

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

And the conservative vs liberal scale?
I push back hard on people who call me a liberal IRL.

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where did you see an option to choose your country?

[–] vaguerant@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After you finish the survey, it asks your age, gender, country and political position (from a drop-down that goes from "Extremely Liberal" to "Extremely Conservative").

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I thought they would asking for it before the survey begins and the questions are tweaked accordingly. It isn't really fair to ask someone from the other side of the world questions solely based on US politics.

[–] cadalen@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, Cambridge is British and it looks like the author of the survey is Dutch lol

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago

It talked about all North American politics

[–] somefool 1 points 2 years ago

I emailed them about Australia, and quickly got an answer :)

Thank you so much for letting us know! It was a mishap in the code. A huge sorry to all Australians!