Table 1 Association table between veracity discernment and trust.

From: Trust in institutions and misinformation susceptibility both independently explain vaccine skepticism

Variable

Variable

p

FDR

Correlation coefficient

CI (95%)

Veracity discernment

Institutional trust A

 < .001

 < 0.05

.14

(0.07, 0.21)

Institutional trust B

 < .001

 < 0.05

.28

(0.24, 0.37)

Specific Trust

 < .001

 < 0.05

.32

(0.27, 0,39)

  1. To assess the correlations as specifically as possible, we controlled for confounding factors (sex, age, education, income and origin).
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