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Consensus and Scientific Classification
KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, 2022 Consensus about a classification is defined as agreement on a set of classes (concepts or categories) and their relations (such as generic relations and whole-part relations) for us in forming beliefs. While most research on scientific consensus has focused on consensus about a belief as a mark of truth, we highlight the importance of consensus in ...
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In consensus we trust? Persuasive effects of scientific consensus communication
Public Understanding of Science, 2018Scholars have recently suggested that communicating levels of scientific consensus (e.g. the percentage of scientists who agree about human-caused climate change) can shift public opinion toward the dominant scientific opinion. Initial research suggested that consensus communication effectively reduces public skepticism. However, other research failed
Sedona Chinn, Daniel S Lane
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Scientific-Consensus Communication About Contested Science: A Preregistered Meta-Analysis
Psychological Science, 2022 Scientific-consensus communication is among the most promising interventions to minimize the gap between experts’ and the public’s belief in scientific facts.
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The Impact of Perceived Scientific and Social Consensus on Scientific Beliefs
Science Communication, 2018 Two studies examined perceptions of scientific and social (social network and public) consensus on scientific issues and their impact on scientific beliefs, using samples of Japanese people.
Keiichi Kobayashi
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On scientific justification by consensus
Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 1986Nach vielen gegenwartigen Wissenschaftstheoretikern ist die Wissenschaftstheorie des Logischen Empirismus, wie sie in den Schriften von Carnap, Russell, Reichenbach und Hempel vertreten wird, durch die neue Wissenschaftstheorie wesentlich verbessert worden, wie sie von Hanson, Polanyi, Toulmin und Kuhn entwickelt worden ist.
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Scientific consensus on sustainability: the case of The Natural Step
Sustainable Development, 2000The Natural Step (TNS) is internationally promoted as the basis of a scientific consensus on sustainability. TNS appears potentially consensual because it argues from a position of summary trends that are scientifically informed. However, comparison with other sustainability principles shows that this appearance is unjustified. Firstly, this is because
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The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
Science, 2004Policy-makers and the public who are not members of the relevant research community have had to form opinions about the reality of global climate change on the basis of often conflicting descriptions provided by the media regarding the level of scientific certainty attached to studies of climate.
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An Unchallengeable Scientific Consensus
2010It was described in the last chapter how during the middle years of the BSE inquiry, the adverse epistemic conditions of the early stage of inquiry were replaced by findings from experimental studies into BSE and from natural transmissions of the disease to a number of other species.
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Scientific Consensus on Climate Change?
Energy & Environment, 2008Fear of anthropogenic “global warming” can adversely affect patients' well-being. Accordingly, the state of the scientific consensus about climate change was studied by a review of the 539 papers on “global climate change” found on the Web of Science database from January 2004 to mid-February 2007, updating research by Oreskes, who had reported that ...
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