Public understanding of chemistry research in print news
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Despite numerous calls for improving scientific literacy, many American adultsshow a lack of understanding of experiments, scientific study, and scientific inquiry.News media is one important avenue for science learning, but is inconsistent in thepresentation of scientific research limitations, potentially impacting reader understanding.In this study, members of the public (n=232) and science faculty (n=191) read arandomly assigned news article either presenting or omitting the study limitations. Participants reading articles presenting limitations were able to evaluate thereasonableness of claims based on the article better than those who read the articleomitting limitations when accounting for their views on the tentativeness of science(ToS). Presenting limitations was important in identifying unreasonable claims for bothpublic and science faculty, while ToS views predicted ability to identify reasonableclaims for the public.
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