Factors Assessing Science's Self-Presentation model and their effect on conservatives' and liberals' support for funding science.

ABSTRACT: A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of responses to 13 questions from a 2022 national probability sample of 1,154 US adults supported the existence of five factors that we argue assess perceptions of Factors Assessing Science's Self-Presentation (FASS). These factors also predict support for increasing federal funding of science and, separately, supporting federal funding of basic research. Each of the factors reflects perceptions of a key facet of scientists' self-presentation, science/scientists' adherence to professed norms, or science's benefits: specifically, that scientists are Credible, Prudent, and Unbiased and that science is Self-Correcting and Beneficial. The FASS model explained 40.6% of the variance in support for increasing federal funding for science and 33.7% in support fo

SUBMITTER: Ophir Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10515153 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature