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May 4, 2022 · Forces and factors that drive distrust. A mix of cultural conditions, sophisticated strategies, and electronic communication mechanisms are feeding on each other to undercut the credibility of medical science. These factors and forces overlap. People are overwhelmed by information coming through their computers, phones, and televisions.
Oct 31, 2024 · A 2022 paper by Van der Linden and researchers at Jigsaw in Science Advances reported the videos helped people spot misinformation techniques and better discern trustworthy and untrustworthy content. More recently, Google created a set of three German-language videos about misinformation tactics and showed them to YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram users in Germany.
Feb 4, 2022 · Untrustworthy science can and should be discounted and challenged, but uncertainty in science is unavoidable, and scientific characterization of uncertainty can be extremely useful when decision-makers have strategies for making decisions amidst that uncertainty.
- Educational Studies of Students’ Understanding of Uncertainty
- Engaging Students in Analyzing and Quantifying Uncertainty
- Engaging Students with Claims About Uncertainty in Media Reports and Articles
Compared with the literature base in psychology, there are fewer educational studies of how students make sense of and learn to make sense of scientific claims about uncertainty (e.g., Manz, 2015, 2018; Metz, 2004; Pallant et al., 2020; Schroeder et al., 2019). Studies that have been conducted, however, suggest that even young students can demonstr...
Some pertinent scholarship on analyzing and quantifying uncertainty comes from researchers working on the borders between science and mathematics education, focusing on data and data modeling. We discuss three examples below. Modeling signal and noise in measurement. Lehrer, Schauble, and colleagues report on a series of studies in which upper elem...
The studies cited above focus on fostering students’ personal and collective engagement with phenomena. This focus appropriately shifts K-12 science education from the rhetoric of conclusions to engaging students with uncertainty as they participate in science practices such as analyzing data and models. However, it is also essential to build stude...
Jul 1, 2021 · Science is a. process. of learning and discovery, and sometimes we learn that what we thought was right is wrong. Science can also be understood as an institution (or better, a set of institutions ...
Oct 9, 2020 · Scientific findings are hypotheses that encompass the state of knowledge at a given moment. In the long run, many of are challenged and even overturned. Doubt might be troubling, but it impels us ...
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Jul 14, 2022 · As experts on attitudes, persuasion and how humans are impacted by scientific innovations, our recent research showed that there are four key reasons people reject scientific information. These ...
