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lulugravy 76F
381 posts
2/26/2015 8:08 pm
Comprehension

I encountered this on Facebook this aft. and thought it was interesting.......These are scientists by the way.

Ben......I'd like to see a randomized study that selects 1,000 people who have posted 10-20 comments in the last month related to climate change, split by two groups: in one, those who post comments endorsing a view that anthropogenic climate change is occurring; in the other, those who post comments endorsing a view that anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. I would like to test these people's reading comprehension with New York Times news articles, Scientific American feature stories, and articles published in Nature.

* Ben.....And a separate similar sample group tested for comprehension reading.

*Pete.....In many cases, climate change deniers are literate. They simply inhabit a different space (i.e. work for an oil company, car company, Christian organization, etc.).

*Bev.... Of course. I was responding to Ben's post. According to research reported in Nature, a principal problem for science literacy is not the ability to understand scientific facts but rather the beliefs of people in proximity to the subject. Many people don't change incorrect beliefs based on being shown factually accurate data. They retreat into personal beliefs largely based on their circle of friends and family.

*Pete....... We comprehend that which reinforces our ideological bias... This is built into our design, and plainly shows why the fight against ignorance is so fundamentally difficult.

*Ben.... I'm not talking about "people" but those who casually engage political matters on social media.


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bijou624

2/27/2015 3:15 am

 Hi Lulu: Some of the people who think climate change is a hoax may not believe it's happening because initially scientists called it 'global warming'. So when these people see a lot of snow and ice and it's freezing cold every Winter where they live....could that possibly be the reason some people don't believe it?

There needs to be more documentaries about this on t.v. I saw one about a year ago and it showed the areas of different countries scientists believe would be submerged in water permanently due to climate change. Much of the outer perimeter of Manhattan will be under water.




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