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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.

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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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[–] NetHandle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Given the results in the comments, one might suspect the headline here is the real fake news

[–] somefool 2 points 1 year ago

There's a significant filter on the fediverse's audience, since it requires finding it, figuring out how it works, and so on. I feel we're mostly tech/internet savvy here.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

listen I just want to feel good about getting a good score on a test.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like the study is more about identifying common dog whistles in headlines than actual misinformation. A shift in population demographics happens all the time so that one could be true, but the phrasing of non-white hints that is is probably an article loaded with misinformation about the cause and implications of the demographic shift. No idea how it was scored though.

[–] Eggscellent@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The answer for that one was true.