Table 1.
Epistemic beliefs item wording.
Table 2.
Conspiracist ideation (OSoC 2016).
Table 3.
Beliefs about issues (NSF 2016).
Table 4.
Beliefs about issues (NSF 2016).
Table 5.
Epistemological belief composite scores, descriptives and zero-order correlations with related concepts.
Fig 1.
Scatterplots with locally weighted regression lines.
Values shown are for composite scales. Size of marker corresponds to number of cases. Fit lines drawn using iterative least squares (Loess) with 50% of the data points to calculate the local smoother via the Epanechnikov kernel function. Fit lines suggest a modest linear relationship between conspiracist ideation and each of the three epistemic beliefs.
Fig 2.
Structural equation model summarizing factors associated with conspiracist ideation.
Circles denote latent variables; education is manifest. All links shown are standardized and significant; p < .02. Except for education, manifest variables and their loadings are not shown. Disturbances on endogenous factors are also omitted from the figure. Path coefficients for all three epistemic beliefs measures indicate that these factors have an influence on conspiracist ideation that is comparable to or larger than other established predictors.
Table 6.
Structural equation models summarizing factors associated with lagged issue accuracy.