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).

  • koreth@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Got 20/20, was rewarded with a message, “You’re more resilient to misinformation than 100% of the US population!” and looked for the Fake button because as a member of the US population, that is a mathematical impossibility.

      • XTL@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        100% has a margin of error in millions, or tens of, depending on interpretation.

        • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          For most purposes, a 5% margin of error is considered acceptable. Since some quick websearch estimates 336M people, if up to ~17M people are informed, you can still claim that 100% is misinformed.

          (But then, if you actually know how many people are informed, your acceptable margin of error falls down considerably.)

    • vaguerant@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Apparently I’m more resilient to misinformation than 100% of the UK population, but I’m not from the UK; I had to lie on the form because they didn’t have my country. Turns out the real fake news was me.