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Mastering critical thinking skills is strongly associated with the ability to recognize fakeness and misinformation
In today’s world of information overload, people need skills to quickly and critically evaluate online content; they must be able to consider the credibility and quality of information as well as recognize fake and misleading information. Here, we operationalize critical thinking skills into 6 measurable concepts (i.e., causation and correlation, independent data and replicates, reproducibility,…
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Can Critical Thinking Skills Help Us Recognize Misinformation better?
OSF wiki, files, and preregistration available here. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Y2674 Background Our time is characterized by an unprecedented abundance of information available online. Even though this opens up a myriad of possibilities for people to gather vast knowledge on virtually any topic, recognizing the truthfulness of information online is not straightforward. Mastering skills in critical thinking…
