Many people can’t tell when photos are fake. Can you? – The Washington Post

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Many people can’t tell when photos are fake. Can you?

The results are “a bit worrying,” the researcher who led a new study says. “If we can’t tell the fake ones from the real ones, the fakes are going to be powerful.”

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/17/many-people-cant-tell-when-photos-are-fake-can-you/?utm_term=.1e50e8e3d6bb&wpisrc=nl_draw&wpmm=1

In a test designed by Nightingale and taken by more than 700 men and women, participants could tell an image was faked only 60 percent of the time — a little better than if they guessed completely at random. And with the correct picks, only 45 percent of participants could pinpoint what had been changed in a photo. (Men were slightly more adept at finding the specific change.)