Posted on 03/15/2021 6:59:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Misinformation and fake news continue to be a major problem across social media platforms. Now, a new study reports people with high emotional intelligence are much less likely to fall for deceptive and untrue news items.
Conducted at the University of Strathclyde, the study asked a group of volunteers to take a look at various social media news stories, some true and some false. The group then tried to determine which were real and which were fictitious. Each participant also gave a short explanation as to their fact-checking thought process and filled out a test to gauge their emotional intelligence.
The news stories presented to participants covered a variety of topics, including health, the environment, crime, and wealth inequality. The fake headlines in particular featured a lack of trusted sources, not a lot of information in general, and emotive language.
What do different people say about fake news? Ultimately, participants scoring high on the emotional intelligence test were most likely to accurately pick out fake news items. Study authors also noted a similar relationship between education level and fake news detecting ability. In other words, participants with more education appear to have a better eye for spotting fake news.
🔇X “Fake news on social media is now a matter of considerable public and governmental concern. Research on dealing with this issue is still in its infancy but recent studies have started to focus on the psychological factors which might make some individuals less susceptible to fake news,” says Dr. Tony Anderson, Senior Teaching Fellow in Psychology at Strathclyde, in a university release.
“We assessed whether people were better able to disregard the emotionally charged content of such items and better equipped to assess the veracity of the information. We found that, while distinguishing real news content from fake was challenging, on average participants were more likely to make the correct decision than not,” the researcher adds. “Previous research has shown that people can be trained to enhance their own EQ levels. This should help them to discern with a greater degree of accuracy which news is reliable and which is misleading.”
Study authors also included some quotes from participants. Some statements made by those who fell for fake news items include “the commenter on the post has the same thoughts as me” and “my kids are in this position so I completely get this.”
Meanwhile, subjects who correctly identified fake news told researchers “comes across as more of a rant” and “fearmongering article with no data.”
The study is published in PLOS ONE.
Same thing as “A good bovine excrement detector.”
Bkmk
>>Same thing as “A good bovine excrement detector.”
There are Democrat voters who claimed that they believed that Bill Clinton had never lied in his life until he came clean and admitted that he lied about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Meanwhile Republican voters knew he lied his way all through the 1992 campaign and throughout his first term.
Emotional intelligence = too stupid to see the obvious. Ignorance is bliss.
Its all pretty straight forward. If its AP and its related to Trump, its fake.
OMG I miss Rush.
An oxymoron?
“but I was wrong once”.
Don’t worry about it, that was a long time ago and everybody but you and me have forgotten about it.
;)
Common sense. 🙄
iI the ‘UNIVERSITY of STRATHCLYDE’ (whatever the hell that is) has a study about ‘emotional intelligence’, any sentient being should conclude repeal XIX.
I can’t see how common sense translates to “emotional intelligence”. That might be what they mean, but the phrase just doesn’t make any sense
Excellent, EvilCapitalist.
You win the award for the best comment!
A person cannot say the one on the left is “real” just because it sounds objective.
** This is the entire problem in one graphic.**
The one on the left reports a government response as if it’s true.
One must dive into the actual study’s methodology, data, and conclusion.
(I admit I’m not doing diving anymore into THIS study tonight. I’ve seen enough to know it’s likely bull. But it’s also late.)
Great study and article except for the lack of clarity (”emotional intelligence”). Appeals to those who lack analytical, logical thought are becoming too common. It looks like an epidemic in Internet media and responses.
Insanity is too often on display from both the right and left in media now.
I haven’t looked at the research report at all, by the way. Just assuming that the article about it is generally complete in its description.
High emotional intelligence, they must bet talking about the rats and their supporters, anther pat on the back
I added a link to the research site in this thread. It is more biased BS.
is that the same as smelling BS Âż?
In other words, participants with more education appear to have a better eye for spotting fake news.
They why do Ivy League graduates fall for Communism and militant Leftism?
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Whoever thought the Ivy League schools were teaching anyone how to use logic to determine truth or falsehood about anything? I haven’t met a single Ivy League graduate who could use logic half as well as a graduate of TEXAS A&M...of course, that could all be changed since I was associated with that school. I hope not. There are too few of us in the USA.
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