Explaining public understanding of the concepts of climate change, nutrition, poverty and effective medical drugs: An international experimental survey.

ABSTRACT: Climate change, nutrition, poverty and medical drugs are widely discussed and pressing issues in science, policy and society. Despite these issues being of great importance for the quality of our lives it remains unclear how well people understand them. Specifically, do particular demographic and socioeconomic factors explain variation in public understanding of these four concepts? To what extent are people's changes in understanding associated with changes in their behaviour? Do people judge scientific practices relying on the more descriptive concepts of climate change and effective medical drugs to be more objective (less controversial) than practices relying on the more value-laden concepts of poverty and healthy nutrition? To address these questions, an experimental survey and regres

SUBMITTER: Krauss A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7286496 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature