Based on the appendices and the course material only, analyze

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Task 2. Based on the appendices and the course material only, analyze:

a. The quality of the samples used in the studies.

b. The validity and reliability of the measures of belief in news or its veracity across the three studies.

Task 3. Based on the Appendices and the course material only,

a. Evaluate the empirical evidence presented in the studies for the causes of the dissemination and acceptance of factually inaccurate information, i.e., provide a substantive interpretation of the results in light of the theories.

b. Assess whether the findings have causal interpretations.

c. Conclude on what the cumulative evidence tells you about the causes of dissemination of and belief in factually inaccurate information.

Task 4. Drawing on the appendices and the course material, propose one change in news media practices and an argument for how it could affect the dissemination of and belief in factually inaccurate information. Your proposed change and argument should be original; that is, you should go beyond simply repeating a change and argument proposed by a scholar and/or recapped in lecture.

Task 5. Based on the appendices and the course material only,

a. Briefly describe your own proposal for a research design to test the argument above, which could be applied in reality, and including a brief discussion of what analyses you would conduct to evaluate that argument;

b. Motivate your suggestion by discussing the advantages and disadvantages of your research design.

Task 6. On the basis of the individual tasks and associated material, discuss whether and how beliefs in factually inaccurate information might matter for democratic outcomes? Consider explicitly the studies' methodological limitations.

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