Fig. 2: Individuals’ attitude and intention scores after exposure to misinformation and rebuttal in Experiment 3 and Experiment 4.
From: Hostility has a trivial effect on persuasiveness of rebutting science denialism on social media
The y-axes represent post scores for intention or attitude and the x-axes represent experimental conditions. Overall, the overlapping error bars indicate only small differences between hostile and neutral conditions on persuasiveness. Differences between rebuttal and rebuttal-absent conditions across experiments indicate a consistent benefit of using rebuttal. Point estimates represent mean post scores of intentions in Experiment 3 (a: n = 1200) and Experiment 4 (b: n = 1195) or mean post scores of attitudes in Experiment 3 (c: n = 1200) and Experiment 4 (d: n = 1195). Mean post scores are adjusted for baseline values. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Shaded areas indicate the density of observations.
