COMS 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Scientific Literacy, Deficit Spending, Cognitive Deficit

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2500
• Professor: Chris Russill

Document Summary

Public understanding of science: survey research around the world. The authors concentrate their review on research that uses large-scale representative national and international sample surveys, asking people standard questions from a questionnaire. The authors typify three paradigms of pus research through the questions they raised, the interventions they supported and the criticisms they attracted. A big data pool: decades of survey research. The best-known surveys of scientific literacy, public interests and attitudes to science, many of which are partially comparable because they have often been modelled on the. Us national science foundation indicator (nsf) indicators since 1979. Many other related surveys are related to specific and often controversial developments in science and technology; they are excluded from this review, not least for reasons of practicality. Risk perception research has collected numerous national surveys of various hazards. Also not included in this study are the occasional science items in international surveys with broader social content.