Some of our fellow citizens seem to voluntarily do the work of spreading fake news.
  • Kory@lemmy.mlEnglish
    374·
    10 months ago

    What a stupid headline.

    “So who are these people? They’re a bit more likely to be female. While both the comparison groups were roughly evenly split between male and female, the superspreaders were 60 percent female. They’re also older, on average 58 years old, nearly 20 years older than the sample as a whole.”

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
      281·
      10 months ago

      So it’s not older women but older people, a bit more often women than men

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        10 months ago

        And perhaps statistically insignificant when proportionally adjusted (men die younger or fewer use social media).

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    You: what a flawed study, they indirectly say women are more clueless than men using dubious methodology and weak quality sample.

    Me: older women can appreciate the thrills of spreading fake news in the morning to poison the system and accelerate collapse of capitalism.

    We are not the same