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somefool Jun 29, 2023

First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news

First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news - Beehaw

> Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/ [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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landwomble Jun 29, 2023

I'm not sure this is a good study. I mean I scored 85% so woohoo but you just get headlines to go off. The art of noticing disinformation is in reading articles and making inferences on them. Questions like "vaccines contain harmful chemicals" are obvious red flags but there are some that are a reasonable-sounding headline but I'd imagine the article itself would fall apart on first reading. I know half the problem is people don't read articles but this is a very simplistic survey.

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mrbubblesort

Somehow I got 100%, but it was mainly luck. I really have no clue what % support marijuana is in the US, how young Americans feel about global warming, or how globally respected they feel. I'm not from there, so I don't follow it at all. I think it would've been better if they had an "I don't know / Irrelevant to me" option.