Early COVID-19 Government Communication Is Associated With Reduced Interest in the QAnon Conspiracy Theory.

Front Psychol · 2021 · PMC8438198 · PMID 34531787

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highly significantp =0.015actually significant

Once we rule out these confounders, there is tentative evidence that late communication provides a fertile breeding ground for conspiracism: the sign of Late Campaign is positive in three out of four cases and highly significant in one case ( p =0.015, Panel A Model 4).

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weakly significantp =0.071so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The coefficients are statistically indistinguishable from zero, with the exception of Panel A Model 2, which is weakly significant ( p =0.071).

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