{"id":30686,"date":"2020-09-26T17:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T22:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30686"},"modified":"2020-09-26T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T22:43:37","slug":"and-do-you-gullible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/26\/and-do-you-gullible\/","title":{"rendered":"And Do You Gullible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforinquiry.org\/blog\/we-do-some-nudity-we-do-some-blasphemy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gullibility note<\/a> from Paul Fidalgo at <em><strong>CFI<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stereotype says that it\u2019s older folks who fall for online scams, but when it comes to COVID-19 misinformation, it\u2019s the dang kids: \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/younger-people-covid-19-misinformation-harvard-survey-finds\/story?id=73203076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People under the age of 25 had an 18% probability of believing a false claim<\/a><\/strong>, compared to only 9% of people over 65,\u201d according to a big study from Harvard, Rutgers, Northeastern, and Northwestern (or, HRNN, pronounced \u201chrrrrrnnnnnnn\u201d like when you have a stomach ache).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;d think the natives would be better at tracking the scams than those damn chrono-interlopers.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s not the medium, but the message, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gullibility note from Paul Fidalgo at CFI: The stereotype says that it\u2019s older folks who fall for online scams, but when it comes to COVID-19 misinformation, it\u2019s the dang kids: \u201cPeople under the age of 25 had an 18% probability of believing a false claim, compared to only 9% \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/26\/and-do-you-gullible\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30687,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions\/30687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}