气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The accuracy of German citizens’ confidence in their climate change knowledge

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DOI	10.1038/s41558-019-0563-0
	The accuracy of German citizens’ confidence in their climate change knowledge
	Fischer H.; Amelung D.; Said N.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	1758678X
卷号	9 期号:10
英文摘要	Accurate confidence—confidence that reflects the accuracy of knowledge—can be relevant for decision-making in areas of high uncertainty. Accuracy of confidence is of particular importance in the area of climate change where scientifically correct information exists alongside misinformation in the public discourse and media. Here we assess the accuracy of confidence in climate change knowledge in a national German sample (n = 509). The accuracy of the confidence of the citizens in their climate change knowledge was only around half of what it could be based on the accuracy of their knowledge. Moreover, the accuracy of confidence controlling for knowledge accuracy was lower for climate change than for two benchmark comparisons: general science knowledge in another national German sample (n = 588), and climate change knowledge in a scientist sample (n = 207). Although these results cannot necessarily be generalized to the population of all indicators of climate change knowledge, the results suggest that the confidence of citizens in their climate change knowledge is unnecessarily fuzzy given their actual knowledge. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	accuracy assessment; climate change; knowledge; nature-society relations; perception; political discourse; public attitude; uncertainty analysis
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/124328
作者单位	Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fischer H.,Amelung D.,Said N.. The accuracy of German citizens’ confidence in their climate change knowledge[J],2019,9(10).
APA	Fischer H.,Amelung D.,&Said N..(2019).The accuracy of German citizens’ confidence in their climate change knowledge.Nature Climate Change,9(10).
MLA	Fischer H.,et al."The accuracy of German citizens’ confidence in their climate change knowledge".Nature Climate Change 9.10(2019).