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Like high-school level, a very basic familiarity with terms, experiment design, inference. The authors cite and link to the five surveys used in the 'Data avai
by smcin 3y ago
Like high-school level, a very basic familiarity with terms, experiment design, inference.
The authors cite and link to the five surveys used in the 'Data availability' section: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01677-8#data-availability https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01677-8#data-avai...
* Surveys EB, Pew and GSS are publicly available and data and details can be found in refs. [27],[28],[29], respectively.
\* take the interactive Pew survey (11 questions) here: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/quiz/science-knowledge-quiz/
* The Fernbach study was published in ref. [9] and the authors made the data available.
* Lackner survey data are available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7920776 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7920776
[27]: Bauer, M. W., Shukla, R. & Kakkar, P. Public Understanding of Science in Europe 1989–2005—A Eurobarometer Trend File (GESIS, 2012); https://www.gesis.org/en/eurobarometer-data-service/search-data-access/eb-trends-trend-files/eb-pus-1989-2005 https://www.gesis.org/en/eurobarometer-data-service/search-d...
[28]: Smith, T. W., Davern, M., Freese, J. & Morgan, S. L. General Social Surveys, 1972–2018 (NORC, 2019); https://gss.norc.org/get-the-data https://gss.norc.org/get-the-data
[29]: Funk, C., Kennedy, B., Johnson, C., Hefferon, M. & Thigpen, C. L. American Trends Panel Wave 42 (Pew Research Center, 2019); https://www.pewresearch.org/science/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-42/ https://www.pewresearch.org/science/dataset/american-trends-...
[9]: Fernbach, P. M., Light, N., Scott, S. E., Inbar, Y. & Rozin, P. Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most. Nat. Hum. Behav. 3, 251–256 (2019). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0520-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0520-3
- smcin 3y ago(useful to note all those surveys are 2019 pre-pandemic, before there was severe partisanization of the phrase "trust in science". I wonder how hard it would be to construct a neutral methodology post-pandemic, now that even the basic vocabulary itself is loaded with associations.) Even then, the 2019 Pew article is depressing reading: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/08/02/partisanship-influences-views-on-the-role-and-value-of-scientific-experts-in-policy-debates/ https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/08/02/partisanship-...
- calf 3y agoIf the abstract actually defined intermediate we wouldn't have comments talking so much about advanced education like PhDs and STEM majors...