Theory and Measurement in The Public Understanding of Science: A Rejoinder to Bauer and Schoon  

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Miller, Jon D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 2 no. 3 (Jul. 1993), page 235-243.
Fulltext: 235PUS23.pdf (462.62KB)

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In the paper 'Mapping variety in public underslanding of science' Bauer and Schoon apply a multidimensional coding to responses to the open question 'Please tell me, in your own words. what does it mean to study something scientifically?'. and draw some conclusions about cultural diversity from their results. I argue here that this study was inappropriate for two main reasons: first, because the open question was formulated and fielded not lo elicit information which would reveal diversity but to assess public scientific literacy against a three-dimensional measure of understanding of three aspects of science which are relevant to the conduct and resolution of public science policy debates; and semnd, because the data se1 used by Bauer and Schoon was small and biased.

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