ali_2022_covid_headlines

6,210 responses from 621 respondents to 10 items.

One of 2 tables from the same source; this one measures Agreement with COVID-19 headline statements (misinformation discernment). The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionAgreement with ten COVID-19 headline statements (true and false mixed; 0 disagree / 1 / 2 agree); headline wording and truth status are not in the deposit; N = 621 Pakistani social-media users; cov_age, cov_gender, cov_education, cov_crt_score.
ReferenceAli, A., & Qazi, I. A. (2022). Data/code for "Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines ..." [data]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZOAKLW
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZOAKLW

Notes

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Size and shape

Responses6,210
Respondents621
Items10
Response categories3
Responses per respondent10
Responses per item621
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleGeneral/non-specific
construct typeCognitive/educational
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng
construct nameAgreement with COVID-19 headline statements (misinformation discernment)

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, ali_2022_covid_misinformation.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).made in the build script
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_ageCovariate made in the build script
cov_crt_scoreCovariate made in the build script
cov_educationCovariate made in the build script
cov_genderCovariate made in the build script

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("ali_2022_covid_headlines")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("ali_2022_covid_headlines")

How to cite

@misc{https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/zoaklw,
  doi = {10.7910/DVN/ZOAKLW},
  url = {https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ZOAKLW},
  author = {Ali, Ayesha and Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub},
  keywords = {Computer and Information Science, Social Sciences, Cognitive reflection, Misinformation, COVID-19},
  title = {Data/code for Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan},
  publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
  year = {2022}
}

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_7 v1.1
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/7pd3-sh31
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv1.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0