{"id":1859,"date":"2017-03-22T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2017-12-28T21:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T21:19:55","slug":"political-affiliation-and-trust-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/political-affiliation-and-trust-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Affiliation and Trust in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_74802482_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1862 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_74802482_Credit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_74802482_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_74802482_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_74802482_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over at the Cultural Cognition\u00a0Project, Dan Kahan has offered a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalcognition.net\/blog\/2017\/3\/8\/the-trust-in-science-particularity-thesis-a-fragment.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> about the relationship between political beliefs and trust in science.<\/p>\n<p>As we all know, party affiliation strongly\u00a0aligns with beliefs about <em>human causation of climate change<\/em>. Whereas &#8212; according to graphs that Kahan has posted &#8212; something like 90% of those who are &#8220;very liberal&#8221; believe that humans have caused climate change, only 20% of those who are &#8220;very conservative&#8221; do.<\/p>\n<p>Kahan&#8217;s question: does that political skew appear for\u00a0other questions requiring scientific expertise?<\/p>\n<p>The answer: NO.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, liberals, moderates, and conservatives are all more than 75% confident that the benefits of vaccines outweigh the risks, and\u00a0have confidence in the public health officials who make these decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In another graph, Kahan shows that both liberals and conservatives hold the scientific community in very high regard. For liberals, it ranks #1 for institutional confidence ratings (above medicine, the military, and the Supreme Court&#8230;and way above television); for conservatives, it ranks #2 (behind the military, above medicine and the Supreme Court&#8230;and way above the press).<\/p>\n<p>For teachers who want to use scientific data to inform teaching practice, Kahan&#8217;s post may well come as a great relief. If you&#8217;ve been worrying that your reliance on research might sound like a kind of political affiliation, you can rest easier knowing that most of us &#8212; liberals, moderates, conservatives &#8212; have a high degree confidence in scientists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Cultural Cognition\u00a0Project, Dan Kahan has offered a fascinating post about the relationship between political beliefs and trust in science. As we all know, party affiliation strongly\u00a0aligns with beliefs about human causation of climate change. Whereas &#8212; according to graphs that Kahan has posted &#8212; something like 90% of those who are &#8220;very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}