在COVID-19新闻报道中的预印件:比较学生和一般人群对提升疫苗接种初步科学的看法
Rebekah Wicke1, Chelsea L Ratcliff2, Alice Fleerackers3
1Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
概括
关于预印研究的透明度,即使被披露,也没有影响公众的信任或COVID-19增强剂疫苗的意图. 让公众了解预版的初步性质至关重要.
科学领域:
- * * 通信科学 通信科学
- * * 公共卫生 公共卫生
- * 科学的不确定性
背景情况:
- *在COVID-19大流行期间,预印研究的新闻框架有所变化,影响了公众对科学发现的看法.
- *作为未经同行评审的研究,预版将科学不确定性引入风险沟通中.
- *关于公众如何对关于 preprint 不确定性的透明度做出反应的理解有限.
研究的目的:
- * 检查预印稿披露和词汇对冲对COVID-19增剂疫苗态度和意图的影响.
- *复制和扩展先前关于公众对媒体科学不确定性的反应的研究.
主要方法:
- *两项研究对大学生样本 (N=837) 和普通人口样本 (N=431) 进行了研究.
- *参与者接触到关于预印研究的新闻文章,披露和对冲的程度各不相同.
- * 衡量了态度,意图,感知可信度和对预印制状态的理解.
主要成果:
- * 两个样本中的参与者都认为预版状态的披露.
- *既没有预版披露,也没有词汇对冲直接影响新闻文章或科学家的可信度.
- *没有发现对COVID-19增剂疫苗的态度或意图有直接影响.
结论:
- * 关于预印制状态的透明度本身并不会显著改变公众的信任或与疫苗有关的态度/意图.
- *预版的初步性质需要向公众进行明确的沟通.
- *需要进一步的研究,以了解有效的策略,以从预印稿中传达科学不确定性.
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