How the public, and scientists, perceive advancement of knowledge from conflicting study results
Science often advances through disagreement among scientists and the studies they produce. For members of the public, however, conflicting results from scientific studies may trigger a sense of uncertainty that in turn leads to a feeling that nothing new has been learned from those studies. In sever...
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| Language: | English |
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/19/191002b/jdm191002b.pdf |