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mark brandt
@mjbsp.bsky.social
Social/Personality Psychology, Michigan State University | ♥ Burritos+Vinyl+ | if there aren’t typos, I didn’t write it
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The youth eat avocados, use social media, drink lattes, and believe more conspiracy theories (meta-analytic r = -.05!) because of their unconventional styles of political participation, lower levels of self-esteem, and general political disaffection onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
![screenshot of text that reads "The meta-analysis yields a significant negative correlation between age and conspiracy be-
liefs, rpooled = −.05, p < .001, 95% CI [−.062, −.031]. There is substantial heterogeneity in the
analysis of the meta-analysis dataset containing variables on conspiracy beliefs, I2 = 94.10%,
τ2 = .009, Q = 2232.06, p < .001"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:eoedukv7uvfieg5edl6jvg6r/bafkreicnbbc673ko4xvjq4bgpmosgrvekfi6winxzpf42eyxnc6nfj2bka@jpeg)
-0.05 👀
I'd love to hear the explanation of how variables like SES and self-esteem could be confounding variables here. Does self-esteem affect age now?
MB
mark brandt
@mjbsp.bsky.social
Social/Personality Psychology, Michigan State University | ♥ Burritos+Vinyl+ | if there aren’t typos, I didn’t write it
1.4k followers976 following763 posts