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Adapting Security Warnings to Counter Misinformation - Laboratory Study Methodology
- Recruited 40 students through Princeton University’s Survey Research Center and to participate in the experiment by taking part in a survey where two questions had no warnings (control) and two questions had either contextual or interstitial warnings (treatment) to study if the participants interacted with the warnings
- Participants were asked to narrate their thought process as they navigated through one of two websites to find information and news from other countries and barely mentioned in the US and chose sources from not well-known sources
- Clickthrough rate (CTR) calculated by accumulating the number of times participants clicked on a result with contextual warnings and the number of times they clicked on “Learn more” but ignored the interstitial warnings
- Alternative visit rate computed based on whether participants used more than one website to study whether participants confirmed results with both sources or switched to another source when they encountered the warnings
- Interviews conducted to learn whether participants saw and understood the warnings. Interview questions aimed to understand whether participants knew and could recognize disinformation, what warning format was most effective for them, and how they felt when they first saw the warnings
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Updated 2021-05-12
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CSCW (Computer-supported cooperative work)
Computing Sciences