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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] somefool 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rounding error :)

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100% has a margin of error in millions, or tens of, depending on interpretation.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For most purposes, a 5% margin of error is considered acceptable. Since some quick websearch estimates 336M people, if up to ~17M people are informed, you can still claim that 100% is misinformed.

(But then, if you actually know how many people are informed, your acceptable margin of error falls down considerably.)

[–] somefool 1 points 1 year ago

I chose to believe Koreth is not actually a member of the US population, but a geographically confused Canadian.