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).

  •  Eggscellent   ( @Eggscellent@kbin.social ) 
    1•1 year ago

    I agree, but they need to start someone. They’ll submit for review, get some errors pointed out there. Publish in a journal and get some more constructive criticism. The next study can learn from that to make improvements.

    •  sab   ( @sab@kbin.social ) 
      2•1 year ago

      It’s already published in Behavior Research Methods. I might be too critical and focusing on the wrong things as a political scientist judging a psychology piece, but at least to me the test does not seem to be that convincing in measuring susceptibility to misinformation. The claim of the article (which I admittedly haven’t read carefully) seems to be that “it is feasible to develop a psychometrically validated measurement instrument for misinformation susceptibility”, which might still be the case.