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

I got 19/20, my girlfriend got 15/20. We both think the test design is not super good - only the headlines lead to guessing some times, where parts of article might have painted a clearer picture

[–] jinno@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there were a few headlines where I was like “Well… maybe? If I can’t actually read it I’ll assume false, though.”

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

20/20 and it ducking sucked.

Some are super obvious , like “did ancient aliens invade and cause Covi and the others are like “3 experts disagree with the juries verdict”.

Also you can’t select Australia as a country but North Korea is fine? Yeah fuck you too England.