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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.

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got 18/20, but also THEY DONT HAVE AN OPTION FOR AUSTRALIA! What kind of survey has Austria and Azerbaijan but not Australia. Seriously. And you Americans love a binary scale of political preference. At least it wasn’t a required question.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where did you see an option to choose your country?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After you finish the survey, it asks your age, gender, country and political position (from a drop-down that goes from "Extremely Liberal" to "Extremely Conservative").

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I thought they would asking for it before the survey begins and the questions are tweaked accordingly. It isn't really fair to ask someone from the other side of the world questions solely based on US politics.