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Dazzling-Climate-318 t1_iwbxazn wrote
Reply to comment by asbruckman in People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group. by asbruckman
“Persistent False Belief” does not appear to be one of the categories listed in the findings. Is that an alternative name for one or more of the categories?
Dazzling-Climate-318 t1_iwad7nq wrote
Reply to People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group. by asbruckman
I read the report and it is very preliminary. Most importantly it missed perhaps the most germane possible cause of the spreading of misinformation, the inability of a significant portion of the population to engage in Rational thought. Without that ability and practice, a significant portion of the population simply cannot determine if something is true or false. Instead they make decisions based on associations with others and simply repeat what they read or hear without any critical analysis. This per Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. I find the continued assumption that humans are rational actors in analyses such as this truly miss one of the simplest explanations and blindly ignores research that truly could illuminate the phenomenon under study.
Dazzling-Climate-318 t1_iwbyat4 wrote
Reply to comment by asbruckman in People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group. by asbruckman
I believe the term used in the article is “steadfast non-standard belief”. Please refer back to the published version of the article.