First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news
phys.org
University of Cambridge psychologists have developed the first validated "misinformation susceptibility test": a quick two-minute quiz that gives a solid indication of how vulnerable a person is to being duped by the kind of fabricated news that floods online spaces.

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).

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s anecdotal experience, I’m 50+ and I got 19/20, I 100% identified all fakes and marked fake one of the real ones, so I’m on the skeptical side of things.

    • snooggums@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      How can you tell which answers were which?

      Oh, I see that I got 90% fake news but have no idea which ones I got wrong.

      • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        You can tell by the results “real news detection” and “fake news detection”, they don’t tell you which one is wrong, probably to avoid other people “copying” the correct answers.