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We test the correlation between Ambiguity Aversion (AA) and illusory pattern perception (IPP). We use different realizations of Illusory pattern perception: recognizing human faces in noisy pictures, conspiracy theories and belief in fake news. Our hypothesis is that in the cross section AA will be higher for the subjects for which any of these realizations is higher. We believe that this correlation will be stronger for people who are facing a salient (relevant) form of uncertainty in their lives. We define our variables according to the attached study. The attached study gives details on how we plan to compute all our variables (except for fake news, which is made of news-like posts invented by us). We also check, according to this file, if people who recently dropped their social contacts the most (due to COVID-19) have a significantly higher AA than the others. We test these correlations on a representative sample of the US, a few days before the presidential elections (from October 29). We are going to post the survey shortly. |
