Fake news detection on social media: the predictive role of university students’ critical thinking dispositions and new media literacy

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the CTDS, NMLS, and FN detection task and skewness and kurtosis values for each instrument

	Skewness		Kurtosis		\(\overline{{\text{X}}}\)	sd
	Statistic	Std. Error	Statistic	Std. Error	\(\overline{{\text{X}}}\)	sd
CT dispositions	− 0.476	0.194	0.409	0.385	3.89	0.49
New media literacy	− 0.287	0.194	0.095	0.385	3.83	0.49
Ability to detect fake news	0.255	0.194	− 0.528	0.385	76.84	14.52