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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    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.

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      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.