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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.”