Author Correction: Public attitudes towards social media field experiments

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Participant awareness and ratings of vignette study descriptions. (A) Participant awareness of treatments administered by researchers. Participants (*N* = 499) were asked “which of the following ways of interacting on social media do you think academics have used in their experiment? (Select all that apply)”. (B) Ethical acceptability of four published social media field experiments^3,4,5,27^. Participants were provided with a brief description of the experiment (approved by the respective authors) and asked “How ethically unacceptable versus acceptable do you find the described study?” using

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Correction to: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-024-76948-z, published online 30 October 2024

The original version of this Article contained an error in Figure 2, where the bars in panel A were interchanged.

The original Figure 2 and accompanying legend appear below.Fig. 2. Participant awareness and ratings of vignette study descriptions. (A) Participant awareness of treatments administered by researchers. Participants (N = 499) were asked “which of the following ways of interacting on social media do you think academics have used in their experiment? (Select all that apply)”. (B) Ethical acceptability of four published social media field experiments^3,4,5,27^. Participants were provided with a brief description of the experiment (approved by the respective authors) and asked “How ethically unacceptable versus acceptable do you find the described study?” using a 5-point rating scale (− 2 = completely unacceptable, 2 = completely acceptable). Points represent means and vertical bars represent standard error. Data is split out by participants’ political viewpoint, such that “liberal” participants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$N=276$$\end{document} indicated that they are either slightly or very liberal, “conservative” participants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$N=131$$\end{document} indicated that they are either slightly or very conservative, and “other” participants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$N=92$$\end{document} indicated that they are neutral or they preferred not to say.

The original Article has been corrected.