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psychotools_conspiracist
36,629 responses from 2,449 respondents to 15 items.
About this table
Description Measure of belief in conspiracy theories
Reference Brotherton R, French CC, Pickering AD (2013). Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 279.
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00279
Licence GPL-3.0
Source data https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/psychotools/index.html
Size and shape
Responses 36,629
Respondents 2,449
Items 15
Response categories 5
Responses per respondent 14.957
Responses per item 2441.933
Density 0.997
Longitudinal FALSE
Classification
age range Adult (18+)
sample Educational, Internet-based, Targeted/specific
construct type Opinion/attitude
measurement tool Survey/questionnaire
item format Likert Scale/selected response
primary language(s) eng
construct name Generic Conspiracist Beliefs (GCB) scale
Item text
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
Instrument Measure of belief in conspiracy theories
Mean words per item 15.533
Mean characters per item 98.467
Mean characters per response 17.200
Flesch-Kincaid grade level 11.025
Get the data
Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("psychotools_conspiracist")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("psychotools_conspiracist")
Version and provenance
IRW version v393
Redivis dataset item_response_warehouse v53.0
Redivis dataset DOI 10.57761/4g08-xt41
Manifest pin for this IRW version v53.0
Metadata source irw_meta v23.0
Part of the Item Response Warehouse , IRW v393. This page describes the table as released in item_response_warehouse v53.0.