The advent of the pandemic, and its injection into partisan politics in the United States and abroad, lend an urgency to a deeper understanding of conspiracy theories, given that false beliefs — that the C.D.C. First, the team rated each person on their level proclivity for conspiracy theories. Participants were asked to rate the probable veracity of general statements such as “Some U.F.O. About 60 percent scored low on the scales, meaning they were resistant to such theories; the other 40 percent ranged above average or higher. In the second phase, the research team gave the participants several standard personality questionnaires.

Source: New York Times September 28, 2020 09:00 UTC