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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.01.004
	What makes for compelling science? Evidential diversity in the evaluation of scientific arguments
	Kary A.; Newell B.R.; Hayes B.K.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	0959-3780
起始页码	186
结束页码	196
卷号	49
英文摘要	Despite overwhelming scientific evidence, many members of the public remain skeptical about anthropogenic global warming. Hence, we examined how the presentation of factual scientific evidence affects lay evaluations of scientific claims. Taking inspiration from cognitive research on inductive reasoning, two studies examined the impact of evidential diversity on acceptance of claims in the domains of climate change and public health. Participants were presented with scientific claims based on competing evidence options and were asked to choose the best and worst form of evidence for each claim. The diversity of the available evidence was manipulated across three dimensions; geographical (evidence from two geographically near or far nations), socio-cultural (evidence from two culturally similar or dissimilar nations), and temporal (evidence drawn from two different periods or the same period). In both studies, diverse evidence on the geographical and socio-cultural dimension increased perceived support for scientific claims, but the relative impact of these dimensions differed between domains; geographical diversity had a larger effect on claims about climate change; socio-cultural diversity had a larger effect on claims about health. On the temporal dimension, recent non-diverse evidence (i.e. from the same recent period) increased perceived support for scientific claims more than diverse evidence. These results may have important implications for the communication of complex scientific evidence to a lay audience. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Best-worst scores; Climate change; Discrete choice experiment; Diversity effect; Public health; Reasoning; Science communication
学科领域	anthropogenic effect; climate change; cognition; communication network; discrete choice analysis; global warming; perception; public health; research work
语种	英语
scopus关键词	anthropogenic effect; climate change; cognition; communication network; discrete choice analysis; global warming; perception; public health; research work
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117165
作者单位	University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kary A.,Newell B.R.,Hayes B.K.. What makes for compelling science? Evidential diversity in the evaluation of scientific arguments[J],2018,49.
APA	Kary A.,Newell B.R.,&Hayes B.K..(2018).What makes for compelling science? Evidential diversity in the evaluation of scientific arguments.Global Environmental change,49.
MLA	Kary A.,et al."What makes for compelling science? Evidential diversity in the evaluation of scientific arguments".Global Environmental change 49(2018).