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| Title |
The Feasibility of Folk Science
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cognitive Science, July 2010
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| DOI | 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01108.x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Frank C Keil |
| Abstract |
If folk science means individuals having well worked out mechanistic theories of the workings of the world, then it is not feasible. Lay people's explanatory understandings are remarkably coarse, full of gaps and often full of inconsistencies. Even worse, most people underestimate their own understandings. Yet, recent views suggest that formal scientists may not be so different. In spite of these limitations, science somehow works and its success offers hope for the feasibility of folk science as well. The success of science arises from the ways in which scientists learn to leverage understandings in other minds and to outsource explanatory work through sophisticated methods of deference and simplification of complex systems. Three studies ask whether analogous processes might be present not only in lay people, but also in young children and thereby form a foundation for supplementing explanatory understandings almost from the start of our first attempts to make sense of the world. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 118 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 9% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 99 | 84% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 35 | 30% |
| Researcher | 17 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 11% |
| Professor | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 20% |
| Unknown | 12 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 56 | 47% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 11% |
| Philosophy | 7 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 6 | 5% |
| Linguistics | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 13 | 11% |
| Unknown | 19 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 23 November 2017.
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#385
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#16,299
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#5
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