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| Title |
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science
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| Published in |
Public Understanding of Science, June 2022
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| DOI | 10.1177/09636625221098539 |
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| Authors |
Yaela N. Golumbic, Keren Dalyot, Yael Barel-Ben David, Melanie Keller |
| Abstract |
Scientific concepts and core ideas are fundamental for scientific inquiry and research. However, they are not always understood by non-scientists who encounter science in the media, conversations with friends, and other daily contexts. To assess how non-scientists reason with science in daily life, we extend the work described by Drummond and Fischhoff by developing an everyday scientific reasoning scale and demonstrating its ability to predict the use and application of daily scientific information. This article features three studies describing the development, validation, and use of the everyday scientific reasoning scale. Findings demonstrate an association between respondents' scores on the everyday science reasoning scale and their level of education and suggest that using daily scenarios for framing science facilitates the process of understanding scientific concepts. These results have important implications for communicating science in society and engaging diverse populations with science. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 13% |
| Portugal | 1 | 13% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 4 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 23 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 23 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 22% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 9% |
| Researcher | 2 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 43% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 6 | 26% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 13% |
| Psychology | 1 | 4% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 43% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 January 2023.
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#7,614,827
of 25,163,238 outputs
Outputs from Public Understanding of Science
#635
of 1,093 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#139,509
of 438,422 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Understanding of Science
#22
of 34 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,163,238 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,093 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.6. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 34 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 38th percentile – i.e., 38% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.