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Only 38% opted in, which was only ~1100 people. Moreover, the group of "older" people spread at a rate of only 11%, which was lower than other cohorts (I won't
by tonymet 8y ago
Only 38% opted in, which was only ~1100 people. Moreover, the group of "older" people spread at a rate of only 11%, which was lower than other cohorts (I won't mention which).
Finally, only 8.5 percent actually spread fake news, so this whole study is about about 95 people and how they spread news.
Other commenters mention that the domain list is also suspicious.
Clickbait science
- el_cujo 8y agoPeople are increasingly aware of fake news now and I really hope this spreads further into scrutiny on science, especially news articles about science. You really need to dig deep into the methods of a study so you can understand all of the caveats that go with its conclusions, but obviously a "news" article on a finding is going to gloss over most of that and crystallize the entire paper into one click bait sentence.