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The penultimate hed on the "test" was sort of on the fence with a true premise followed by an extraordinary claim. Otherwise, this was an academic exercise.
That said, as other comments are covering just fine, I'm not sure what conclusions I'd draw from self-reported responses. People are not encountering heds thrown at them in the wild with zero context, and there's nothing stopping them from doing some diligence before selecting a response.
Given the results in the comments, one might suspect the headline here is the real fake news
listen I just want to feel good about getting a good score on a test.
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.
The answer for that one was true.
i got 20/20. did i win?
Same :)
XD
You're more resilient to misinformation than 96% of the US population!
I'm not US? I did specify my country, or are they comparing everyone to US only?