npub15s…e8xgu on Nostr: I didn't expect this, the people with less social media experience were better at ...
I didn't expect this, the people with less social media experience were better at detecting bots:
"analyses found greater sensitivity for participants (a) with less self-reported social media experience, (b) greater analytical reasoning ability, and (c) who were evaluating personas with opposing political views. Some patterns varied with participants' political identity."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00187208211072642
wonder if that's just correlation with age or something else, or if indeed, the more you use social media, the less attuned to human authenticity you become. Seems unlikely to be the latter, but it's definitely the catchy type of headline a news org would use to farm clicks.
Another interesting tidbit, "when judging politically similar personas, liberals were more sensitive to bot indicator (Bi) than were conservatives".
Though, "We conducted this study in Fall 2020, at a time of high political distrust... at a time when some liberals accused conservatives of spreading misinformation during the 2018 and 2020 elections. Liberal participants may have been predisposed to view conservative personas as social bots, whereas conservatives, defensive about the charge, may have been reluctant to label fellow conservatives as bots."
"analyses found greater sensitivity for participants (a) with less self-reported social media experience, (b) greater analytical reasoning ability, and (c) who were evaluating personas with opposing political views. Some patterns varied with participants' political identity."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00187208211072642
wonder if that's just correlation with age or something else, or if indeed, the more you use social media, the less attuned to human authenticity you become. Seems unlikely to be the latter, but it's definitely the catchy type of headline a news org would use to farm clicks.
Another interesting tidbit, "when judging politically similar personas, liberals were more sensitive to bot indicator (Bi) than were conservatives".
Though, "We conducted this study in Fall 2020, at a time of high political distrust... at a time when some liberals accused conservatives of spreading misinformation during the 2018 and 2020 elections. Liberal participants may have been predisposed to view conservative personas as social bots, whereas conservatives, defensive about the charge, may have been reluctant to label fellow conservatives as bots."