Now Tufts University researchers have come up with acomputer modelthat remarkably mirrors the way misinformation spreads in real life. The work might provide insight on how to protect people from the current contagion of misinformation that threatenspublic healthand the health of democracy, the researc...
we find relatively large effect sizes for the sentiment variable that significantly differ between true vs. false rumors. All else being equal, false rumors have cascades that are of larger size, longer duration, and greater virality if the sentiment is positive. Hence, a (positive...
Human cooperation (paying a cost to benefit others) is puzzling from a Darwinian perspective, particularly in groups with strangers who cannot repay nor are family members. The beneficial effects of cooperation typically increase nonlinearly with the number of cooperators, e.g., increasing returns wh...
How do i conduct an experiment to prove that misinformation influences the belief system even after a correction is given? What is a non-experimental correlational design? Is the placebo effect avoided in double-blind studies? How is it that the experimental method...
Although older children showed superior source discriminability for whether their answers had appeared in the stories, they showed an illusion of prior knowledge, believing they had known their misinformation answers all along. To this effect, older children's increased suggestibility may be due not ...
The title text givesthe claimthatflashbulb memoriesof big events can be unreliable. Randall (or another character in the comic, possibly Hairbun or Black Hat, who would want to spread misinformation) denies this claim, claiming to remember watching on CNN as theChallengerspacecraft crashed into ...
often with the purpose of generating site traffic and ad revenue.Randalluses the scientific controversy regarding thehealth effects of chocolateto humans as an example, as there is widespread misinformation on the health effects of chocolate online. In fact, there are no reliable studies to confirm...
Even though JMT has been fortunate to expand its reach and grow, we are aware the public trusts science less than ever before [4]. The controversies associated with COVID-19, polarization of views driven by politics, misinformation and disinformation pushed out by high profile individuals, and ...
such as misinformation by healthcare workers [13]. In Europe, full adherence to colonoscopy after a positive FOBT has still not been achieved [14]. Although the European standard for adherence to secondary colonoscopy is 85–90%, this value has not been reached due to 8–27% non-compliance...