Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a “resilience” ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.

The paper

Edit: the article might be misrepresenting the study and its findings, so it’s worth checking the paper itself. (See @realChem 's comment in the thread).

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    Got 20/20, was rewarded with a message, “You’re more resilient to misinformation than 100% of the US population!” and looked for the Fake button because as a member of the US population, that is a mathematical impossibility.

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        100% has a margin of error in millions, or tens of, depending on interpretation.

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          For most purposes, a 5% margin of error is considered acceptable. Since some quick websearch estimates 336M people, if up to ~17M people are informed, you can still claim that 100% is misinformed.

          (But then, if you actually know how many people are informed, your acceptable margin of error falls down considerably.)

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      Apparently I’m more resilient to misinformation than 100% of the UK population, but I’m not from the UK; I had to lie on the form because they didn’t have my country. Turns out the real fake news was me.