Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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• they “know”
https://oxford.emory.edu/news/2019/02/science-festival.html https://www.vanderbilt.edu/datascience/data-science-for-social-good/
8 Knowledge communication (I) (Burns, O’Connor & Stocklmayer, 2003)
Interest in science
• Do people want to learn from scientists?
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/12/key-findings-about-americans-confidence-in-science-and-their-views-on-scientists-role-in-society/
https://wellcome.org/reports/wellcome-global-monitor-covid-19/2020
9 Knowledge communication (I)
Opinion development and change
• Dissatisfaction with existing Alsop’s informal conceptual change model
knowledge may result in
challenges to one’s opinion.
(cognition)
• Challenges to one’s beliefs
may also lead to changes in
opinion. (affection)
• One’s desire to maintain
control of the situation
may also lead to changes in
opinion. (conation)
10 Knowledge communication (I) (Alsop, 1999; Burns, O’Connor & Stocklmayer, 2003)
Understanding of science
• Scientists should communicate with the public to increase understanding
of science.
11 Knowledge communication (I) (Burns, O’Connor & Stocklmayer, 2003; Ripple, Meijaard & Newsome, 2018)
What is science communication?
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https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/covid-19-myth-or-fact
13 Knowledge communication (I) https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/2019-novel-coronavirus-myth-versus-fact
Statistics from 2020
• Ipsos interviewed 2254 people (aged 16–75 years) in the UK in May 2020.
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• Peters and Ceci (1982) asked whether there was a “prestige” bias in
manuscript evaluation.
• They resubmitted 12 articles recently published in journals with high rejection
rates (80%) under fictitious names and institutions.
• Nine of the 12 resubmissions were processed.
• Eight of the nine processed resubmissions were rejected.
• Different author identities resulted in different outcomes.