Take a quiz on misinformation, see how you do

[Frankfooter]

It hasn't loaded for me, either.

Reading the review paper, this doesn't come across as a very convincing measure.
It's limited to headlines only, and the ability to discern fake headlines.

That's a very small part of understanding misinformation, and one that is probably even more limited than it once was as news is consumed so differently than in "newspaper style format".

The fact they found that if someone does a training on disinformation (the Bad news game) they get better at spotting fake headlines but also classify more real headlines as fake.

I think this may have some use as a general population measure in some ways, but is probably very bad at measuring individual susceptibility to fake news.

It took a while to load for me as well, but it still came up. The link was posted on another fairly popular site and thats probably pushed the traffic too high for them.
Sure, its a limited study with only 20 questions based real and generated headlines. Its still worth checking out, if it works.

 

[Frankfooter]

Its misinformation.
It isn't actually a test.
It is clickbait.
Frankfooter pulled a trick on all of us.

You fail.

valcazar already posted the link to the paper that was released from this study.
Its real, its just flooded with people taking it right now.

 

[shack]

It took a while to load for me as well, but it still came up. The link was posted on another fairly popular site and thats probably pushed the traffic too high for them.
Sure, its a limited study with only 20 questions based real and generated headlines. Its still worth checking out, if it works.

And why do you feel that recognizing misinformation proves that you don't post any misinformation? I'd love to hear the logic on this one.

 

[shack]

You fail.

valcazar already posted the link to the paper that was released from this study.
Its real, its just flooded with people taking it right now.

Or it's a bogus link. This question crashed the internet? LOLOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Valcazar]

Tried it again this morning, I don't believe the survey is still running.
So Frank might have got his results the same way I did.
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Tried it from my phone.
It worked.

20/20.

It's a much worse test than I thought from the write up.

At best it is detecting if you can tell a more sensationalist style of headline from a more sober one.
I guess if you fail even at that you probably suck at detecting misinformation, but that's it.
And even there, as headlines move across media to a more click-baity style, this will be less and less connected to the accuracy of content.

 

[basketcase]

And why do you feel that recognizing misinformation proves that you don't post any misinformation? I'd love to hear the logic on this one.

Misinformation is accidental. Franky is into disinformation.

At best, he is just a sophist pushing an agenda who doesn't care if his posts are based on lies.

 

[Frankfooter]

And why do you feel that recognizing misinformation proves that you don't post any misinformation? I'd love to hear the logic on this one.

It proves that I am a fairly good judge of sources, which is important when this board is full of people who claim otherwise.

 

[Frankfooter]

Tried it from my phone.
It worked.

20/20.

It's a much worse test than I thought from the write up.

At best it is detecting if you can tell a more sensationalist style of headline from a more sober one.
I guess if you fail even at that you probably suck at detecting misinformation, but that's it.
And even there, as headlines move across media to a more click-baity style, this will be less and less connected to the accuracy of content.

And yet that's the exact type of issue that a lot of people on this board have.

 

[Frankfooter]

Misinformation is accidental. Franky is into disinformation.

At best, he is just a sophist pushing an agenda who doesn't care if his posts are based on lies.

Prove what I've posted is disinformation, basketcase.

Do you think this is disinformation?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1850320497256677734

Are you claiming this is disinformation?

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www.haaretz.com

 

[Frankfooter]

Tried it again this morning, I don't believe the survey is still running.
So Frank might have got his results the same way I did.
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I would hope that you're on on DOS, like Shack.
Valcazar said he took it on his phone today.

 

[shack]

It proves that I am a fairly good judge of sources, which is important when this board is full of people who claim otherwise.

Which in no way proves that you don't lie.

 

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[Frankfooter]

Which in no way proves that you don't lie.

It proves I'm a better judge of sources than you, Shazi.

 

[Valcazar]

It proves that I am a fairly good judge of sources, which is important when this board is full of people who claim otherwise.

No it doesn't.

This study has nothing to do with sources.
It has to do with judging headlines.

 

[Valcazar]

And yet that's the exact type of issue that a lot of people on this board have.

Which is why this study is so useless here.
"Was this a real headline" isn't the problem here.

 

[PeteOsborne]

I would hope that you're on on DOS, like Shack.
Valcazar said he took it on his phone today.

I am using my laptop.
My phone doesn't have internet, just text and talk.

 

[shack]

It proves I'm a better judge of sources than you, Shazi.

Which does nothing to disprove that you lie about what your sources report.

 

[Shaquille Oatmeal]

I am using my laptop.
My phone doesn't have internet, just text and talk.
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Is this for real?
21st century Pete

 

[Shaquille Oatmeal]

I was finally able to get this to work.
19/20.
But that was because there were a couple of headlines I wasn't informed on.

 

[Shaquille Oatmeal]

Which is why this study is so useless here.
"Was this a real headline" isn't the problem here.

It is not entirely useless either.
Many people only read the headlines.
So the ability to judge headlines does matter.