Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

There has been a study that was recently published in a scientific journal that was interesting. How accurate is this and should it be?

used on a wide scale? It has to do with a social innoculation against false information and false news.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/1701...

1 Answer

Relevance
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    it's not really accurate

    it just made people think

    one test let people go on their normal apathetic lazy thinking

    the other one warned the information contained falsehoods

    it is a reminder to fact check

    missinformation and disinformation - can be embedded in studies... it isn't such a simple thing to discern truth - that is why honesty is emphasised as a virtue and responsibility of liberty/fraternity/equality

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.