A new misinformation quiz shows that, despite the stereotype, younger Americans have a harder time discerning fake headlines, compared with older generations
A new misinformation quiz shows that, despite the stereotype, younger Americans have a harder time discerning fake headlines, compared with older generations
Aren’t headlines a stylistic thing? I get why it would be used for a test since it an easy hard outcome, but there’s a difference between a headline grabbing your attention, and you over ascribing validity to the source. I’d think to be less susceitt to misinformation
you’d have to either be generally mistrustful, have knowledge to catch the lie, or have some type of heuristic.
Indeed - the test seemed to be largely determined by our susceptibility to headline grabbing language rather than by being able to judge the content of the article. People are always going to try to have enticing headlines, but you can only really judge the quality of the information by reading the article itself.