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Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most

Philip M. Fernbach, Nicholas Light, Sydney E. Scott, Yoel Inbar, Paul Rozin

2019 · Nature Human Behaviour

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Like high-school level, a very basic familiarity with terms, experiment design, inference. The authors cite and link to the five surveys used in the 'Data availability' section: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01677-8#data-avai... * Surveys EB, Pew and GSS are publicly available and data and details can be found in refs. [27],[28],[29], respectively. \* take the interactive Pew survey (11 questions) here: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/quiz/science-knowledge-quiz/ * The Fernbach study was published in ref. [9] and the authors made the data available. * Lackner survey data are available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7920776 [27]: Bauer, M. W.,…
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Shukla, R. & Kakkar, P. Public Understanding of Science in Europe 1989–2005—A Eurobarometer Trend File (GESIS, 2012); https://www.gesis.org/en/eurobarometer-data-service/search-d... [28]: Smith, T. W., Davern, M., Freese, J. & Morgan, S. L. General Social Surveys, 1972–2018 (NORC, 2019); https://gss.norc.org/get-the-data [29]: Funk, C., Kennedy, B., Johnson, C., Hefferon, M. & Thigpen, C. L. American Trends Panel Wave 42 (Pew Research Center, 2019); https://www.pewresearch.org/science/dataset/american-trends-... [9]: Fernbach, P. M., Light, N., Scott, S. E., Inbar, Y. & Rozin, P. Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most. Nat. Hum. Behav. 3, 251–256 (2019). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0520-3
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Your comment reminds me of a study [1] published in 2019, demonstrating that people with the strongest views against genetically modified foods know the least about science but believe they know the most. Implicating that the Big Bang Theory enjoys its popularity because it "sells" is, I think, showing complete arrogance to landmark discoveries made in the past century - such as the cosmic background radiation [2] (for which the Nobel Prize 1978 was awarded), supporting the thesis of the Big Bang. [1] Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0520-3 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
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Yup. For the record, after writing this comment, I read the rest of the questions and either they're more clear cut, or I'm ignorant of the ways they may not be. Here's the paper, which isn't linked from most journalists reporting on it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0520-3 Google "sci-hub" if you want open access to it, using it's doi https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0520-3 Here's one of the surveys they used. It appears they all had the same science questions. https://osf.io/9gztf/ (Study1 Survey.pdf) Here are the questions: The center of the earth is very hot: True The oxygen we breathe comes from plants: True Antibiotics kills viruses as well as…
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bacteria: False All radioactivity is man made: False Almost all food energy for living organisms comes originally from sunlight: True All insects have eight legs: False The earth orbits the sun: True Men and women normally have the same number of chromosomes: True The continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move: True Lasers work by focusing sound waves: False Electrons are smaller than atoms: True All plants and animals have DNA: True Humans share a majority of their genes with chimpanzees: True It is the father’s genes that decide whether the baby is a boy or a girl: True
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