Table 3.
Participants’ response frequencies of the seven-level Likert scale question about information sources reliability (N = 776) (IQR: Intequartile range).
| LIKERT SCALE | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Median | IQR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly disagree | Disagree | Partly disagree | Neither disagree/Nor agree | Partly agree | Agree | Strongly agree | |||
| Newspapers/ magazines (printed press) | 56 | 51 | 76 | 203 | 232 | 147 | 11 | 5 | 1 |
| Radio | 42 | 40 | 84 | 216 | 266 | 115 | 13 | 5 | 1 |
| Television | 80 | 84 | 94 | 149 | 245 | 103 | 21 | 4 | 2 |
| Electronic press (e.g. electronic newspapers) | 39 | 36 | 89 | 204 | 279 | 120 | 9 | 5 | 1 |
| Internet (e.g. general blogs, personal pages) | 59 | 79 | 127 | 227 | 215 | 58 | 11 | 4 | 2 |
| 199 | 136 | 125 | 203 | 87 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 3 | |
| 228 | 133 | 105 | 235 | 61 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| 246 | 143 | 96 | 230 | 50 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| YouTube | 209 | 130 | 112 | 226 | 81 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 264 | 145 | 82 | 241 | 41 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 272 | 153 | 85 | 228 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |
| 279 | 148 | 78 | 230 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 |