New @niemanlab by study coauthor @dangillmor: "The corrections dilemma: Admitting your mistakes increases accuracy but reduces audience trust, a new study finds" https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-corrections-dilemma-admitting-your-mistakes-increases-accuracy-but-reduces-audience-trust-a-new-study-finds/
@brendannyhan
Alternative title "people don't know what's good for them" :(
Would be interesting to extend the test with a feed containing corrections to several media outlets to remind subjects that actual errors aren't as rare as the public corrections.
Personally I find public corrections a mark of competence; when a news weekly I subscribed to got a new editor that proudly proclaimed he would publish no trigger warnings (none has been published previously) while also cutting the modes corrections section I stopped subscribing.
@niemanlab @dangillmor
