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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeople with extreme anti-science views know the least, but think they know the most: study
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/canada/people-with-extreme-anti-science-views-know-the-least-but-think-they-know-the-most-study/wcm/8c1fded3-b1ab-46ba-ab40-201c9df46672?fbclid=IwAR3F4oEhH6F9ndipcyeaa5Uoaher4DTFuQVrXZNOcFR1Smf_4zxyNI2DPUIRecently, researchers asked more than 2,000 American and European adults their thoughts about genetically modified foods.
They also asked them how much they thought they understood about GM foods, and a series of 15 true-false questions to test how much they actually knew about genetics and science in general.
The researchers were interested in studying a perverse human phenomenon: People tend to be lousy judges of how much they know.
Across four studies conducted in three countries the U.S., France and Germany the researchers found that extreme opponents of genetically modified foods display a lack of insight into how much they know. They know the least, but think they know the most.
The less people know, the authors conclude, the more opposed they are to the scientific consensus.
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People with extreme anti-science views know the least, but think they know the most: study (Original Post)
G_j
Jan 2019
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ck4829
(35,071 posts)1. We need a big neon sign that says 'DUNNING-KRUGER'
Doodley
(9,088 posts)2. They are too stupid to know how stupid they are. They are also too
stupid to know how stupid the people who shape their fact-free opinions are. And they are so stupid that they think they know better than the experts (for example, scientists, economists or statisticians).
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)3. Sounds alot like IQ45.
Leith
(7,809 posts)4. I'm not an expert
but I'm scientifically literate. And I just can't abide people who stubbornly claim something about science that is obviously wrong, they can't defend it, and smugly say that they know what they know.