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Trial Status
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on_going
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completed
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Last Published
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May 17, 2021 10:29 AM
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After
March 06, 2023 03:24 PM
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Study Withdrawn
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No
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Intervention Completion Date
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June 30, 2021
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Data Collection Complete
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Before
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Yes
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Was attrition correlated with treatment status?
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No
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Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations
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1266 individuals.
We conducted the experiment with two different samples, with 632 and 634 participants respectively. In the first round, we conduct the experiment with college students in an elite university in China. In the second round, we collect responses from the general population.
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Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms
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322 in the control group, 301 in the Media Names group, 295 in the Media attitudes group and 348 in the Debias group.
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Is there a restricted access data set available on request?
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Yes
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Restricted Data Contact
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[email protected]
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Data Collection Completion Date
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Before
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June 30, 2021
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Is data available for public use?
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No
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
We run an online experiment to test if news consumers take media bias into account when inferring the importance of news and considering whether to repost it. We randomly assign participants into two groups and show them different information related to the four pieces of news (two consistent with the media outlet's general attitudes, and two inconsistent ones).
- For those in the treatment group, we reveal the media outlet that posted the news. We also include a short introduction about the general attitudes of the media outlets before presenting the news.
- For those in the control group, they don't know which media outlet posted the news.
After reading each piece of news, participants answer the following questions:
- To what extent do you agree with the opinion expressed in the news above?
- Please guess the Baidu index of the news above. (Proxy for the importance of the news)
- What's the probability that you repost the news above?
- If you decide to repost the news above, will you add comments to show support/rejection?
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After
We run an online experiment to test if news consumers take media bias into account when inferring the importance of news and considering whether to repost it. We randomly assign participants into two groups and show them different information related to the four pieces of news (two consistent with the media outlet's general attitudes, and two inconsistent ones).
- For those in the control group, they don't know which media outlet posted the news.
- For those in the Media names group, we reveal the media outlet that posted the news.
- For those in the Media Attitudes group, we include a short introduction about the general attitudes of the media outlets.
- For those in the Debias group, we additionally remind participants about the existence of media bias before they read news.
After reading each piece of news, participants answer the following questions:
- To what extent do you agree with the opinion expressed in the news above?
- Please guess the Baidu index of the news above. (Proxy for the importance of the news)
- What's the probability that you repost the news above?
- If you decide to repost the news above, will you add comments to show support/rejection?
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Planned Number of Observations
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600 individuals
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After
600 individuals in each round, 2 rounds in total.
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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600 individuals, 300 in the treatment group and 300 in the control group.
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After
In each round, we will have 600 individuals, with 150 participants in each treatment arm.
In total, we will have 300 participants in each treatment arm.
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Building on Existing Work
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No
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