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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by somefool@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org

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).

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[-] somefool@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Throwing phys.org into my "not necessarily reliable sources" list. Sorry about this, I'll be more careful in the future.

I added "Misleading" to the title.

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