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Beware of vested interests: Epistemic vigilance improves reasoning about scientific evidence (for some people)
In public disputes, stakeholders sometimes misrepresent statistics or other types of scientific evidence to support their claims. One of the reasons this is problematic is that citizens often do not have the motivation nor the cognitive skills to accurately judge the meaning of statistics and thus r...
Autores principales: | Gierth, Lukas, Bromme, Rainer |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7159212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32294109 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231387 |
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