DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1704882114
论文题名: Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics
作者: Drummond C. ; Fischhoff B.
刊名: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 0027-8424
出版年: 2017
卷: 114, 期: 36 起始页码: 9587
结束页码: 9592
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Polarization
; Science communication
; Science education
; Science literacy
; Trust
Scopus关键词: Article
; climate change
; educational status
; evolution
; genetically modified food
; human
; information literacy
; nanotechnology
; polarization
; politics
; priority journal
; religion
; science
; social belief
; stem cell research
; trust
; cosmological phenomena
; education
; educational status
; literacy
; public opinion
; questionnaire
; science
; United States
; Astronomical Phenomena
; Biological Evolution
; Climate Change
; Educational Status
; Food, Genetically Modified
; Humans
; Literacy
; Nanotechnology
; Politics
; Public Opinion
; Religion
; Science
; Stem Cell Research
; Surveys and Questionnaires
; United States
英文摘要: Although Americans generally hold science in high regard and respect its findings, for some contested issues, such as the existence of anthropogenic climate change, public opinion is polarized along religious and political lines. We ask whether individuals with more general education and greater science knowledge, measured in terms of science education and science literacy, display more (or less) polarized beliefs on several such issues. We report secondary analyses of a nationally representative dataset (the General Social Survey), examining the predictors of beliefs regarding six potentially controversial issues. We find that beliefs are correlated with both political and religious identity for stem cell research, the Big Bang, and human evolution, and with political identity alone on climate change. Individuals with greater education, science education, and science literacy display more polarized beliefs on these issues. We find little evidence of political or religious polarization regarding nanotechnology and genetically modified foods. On all six topics, people who trust the scientific enterprise more are also more likely to accept its findings. We discuss the causal mechanisms that might underlie the correlation between education and identity-based polarization. © 2017, National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/163799
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作者单位: Drummond, C., Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States; Fischhoff, B., Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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Drummond C.,Fischhoff B.. Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,2017-01-01,114(36)