A study titled 'Factors Assessing Science's Self-Presentation model and their effect on conservatives' and liberals' support for funding science' published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) identifies five factors that Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) researchers say reflect public assessments of science and are associated with public support for increasing funding of science and support for federal funding of basic research. These factors are whether science and scientists are perceived to be credible and prudent, and whether their work is perceived to be untainted by bias, self-correcting, and beneficial.
titled"Factors Assessing Science's Self-Presentation model and their effect on conservatives' and liberals' support for funding science" published in theidentifies five factors that Annenberg Public Policy Center researchers say reflect public assessments of science and are associated with public support for increasing funding of science and support for federal funding of basic research.
The research team—APPC scholars Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Patrick E. Jamieson; Yotam Ophir of the University at Buffalo, State University of New York; and Dror Walter of Georgia State University—examinedof the extent to which scientists are credible and prudent, science or scientists adhere to their professed norms, and they produce societal benefit and benefits for people like the survey respondents.
for federal funding of basic scientific research. Among liberals, increased support for federal funding of basic scientific research was positively associated with heightened perception that science produces beneficial research.
"Because they reliably reduce to five factors with significant predictive power, the ASK survey's core questions make it possible to isolate both stability and changes in public perception of science and scientists across time," says senior author Kathleen Hall Jamieson, APPC director and founder of the ASK survey."APPC plans to field the survey yearly as a means of tracking public assessments of the well-being of science.
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