Public understanding of science

By W. Evans. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, 2020

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The comments submitted on behalf of the Editorial Board of Physics Education to the Royal Society's ad hoc group on science and the public in November 1984.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. L. Van Boven
2. R. Trumper
3. D. Sherman
4. Dan Kahan
5. Constantine Sedikides
6. Brian S. Lowery
7. Karina Schumann
8. Geoffrey L. Cohen

Citations in the corpus

• Discourse Studies of Scientific Popularization: Questioning the Boundaries (2003, neutral): “It is true that surveys show again and again that members of the public cannot be counted on to know any specific piece of scientific information, however basic (Durant et al., 1989).”
• Partisan Barriers to Bipartisanship (2018, background): “These theories propose that the more educated and informed individuals are, the better they can evaluate information such as policy content, and are thus more likely to evaluate polices using personal knowledge (Locke, 1999; Ziman, 1991).”
• A cross-age study of junior high school students' conceptions of basic astronomy concepts (2001, positive): “This has been confirmed by Durant et al. (1989), who quoted the results of two parallel public national surveys, carried out in Britain and in the USA, indicating that only 34% of Britons and 46% of Americans appeared to know that the Earth goes round the Sun once a year.”