Vliv selského rozumu a znalosti statistiky na posuzování věrohodnosti framingu

This thesis aims to find the link between common sense, knowledge of statistics and subjective assessment of framed information’s veracity. First, it provides a working definition and theoretical basis for the dependent vairables. Then it evaluates and interprets the data obtained through a questionnaire survey. For the analysis an OLS model processed by Gretl is used. It was found that the level of knowledge of statistics is significantly positively affected by education level, on the other hand, age has a strong negative effect on this dependent variable. People with higher statistical knowledge also tend to be more sceptic to information (marking them false), regardless the framing. Common sense was also found to be significantly positively affected by education and signifi-cantly negatively affected by age. People with higher levels of common sense are also less likely to be manipulated by the way information are presented – framing.