Full credit to co-author
@robert-m-ross.bsky.social who came up with the Raccoon Conspiracy as way to index insincere responding, and first applied it in earlier Australian research.
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John Kerr
Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”