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).
Absolutely. The problem isn’t that some people can psychically know whether a headline is true and some can’t.
The problem is deciding that you know without checking. Which is exactly what this test seems to want you to do.
I mean what does “real” even mean in this context? Just that it’s a published headline? Or that it’s a fact checked headline?
What if it’s true, but it’s not a published headline?
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