Relation
Summary of Pennycook et al. COVID-19 Misinformation Study
- Individuals are less discerning when not prompted to consider accuracy before sharing a headline.
- Those with lower baseline scientific knowledge and those who relied more on intuition were less discerning.
- A minimal, neutral nudge to consider accuracy caused people to be 3x more discerning.
- The results of this study support the inattention-based account of misinformation spreading.
- By using apolitical COVID-19 headlines, the researchers were able to determine that partisanship was not the key distractor.
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Updated 2021-12-10
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