Hi
John Ermisch, an economist at ISER at Essex, has done work on trust,
using a range of methodologies.
Jeff Evans
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Sent: 16 June 2010 07:49
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Complacency about public trust in climate change
science?
We used to have a Consumer Science Group at the Institute of Food
Research (we have a joint Comms team with JIC) with social scientists
who we used to run our engagement surveys by and also use people from
time to time to do sense checks on our questions. Locally we also have a
group at Norwich City College who are evaluation specialists and know
how to construct meaningful questionnaires. We are not social scientists
and our surveys are simple barometers before and after engagement events
and I just want to make sure our questions are sound and not leading. I
would have hoped the other surveys referred to were done more rigorously
than ours.
Trust is a very complex subject we are hoping to do an event based on
trust and experts next year. You may trust the data but not the person
who is reporting it and vice versa.
Dee
From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
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Sent: 16 June 2010 00:41
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Complacency about public trust in climate change
science?
Excuse a possibly naive question, and I haven't yet read all
thereports/links mentioned here, but I am curious about how one could
determine what 'the public' thinks about 'trust in science/scientists'.
It strikes me that trust in general is a pretty complex, multi-layered
feeling, so how much coherence would one expect to get by asking a
direct question like, 'do you trust climate science/scientists?' -
supposing that this is being asked directly? Wouldn't that be highly
sensitive to superficial reactions based on what's been floating around
in the media in previous days?
The professional survey designers in marketing/branding and social
surveys have sophisticated techniques for probing (and influencing, in
the former case) into complex attitudes/beliefs. But I don't have a
sense if and how such techniques are being used in the surveys mentioned
in this discussion.
- Phillip
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:37 +0100, Bob Ward wrote:
> That is interesting - I wonder if, as Mike Kenward suggest, a
> follow-up
> survey could be carried out to see if these percentages have changed.
>
> There is another interesting US poll that was published last week:
>
http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/images/files/ClimateBeliefsJun
> e2010(1).pdf
>
> It shows that in June 2010, 81% of the public strongly or somewhat
> trust
> scientists as a source of information about global warming, compared
> with 74% in January and 82% in November 2008. In other words, the
> trust
> of the US public appears to have been restored to its previous very
> high
> level.
>
> However, I am a bit cautious about extrapolating these results to the
> UK. According to the Stanford poll that was mentioned in my first
> message, only 32% remembered reports of the media coverage of the
> problems surounding the UEA, and only 24% remembered the problems
> relating to the IPCC. However, the media coverage about these issues
> was
> far greater in the UK than in the US, so I think it likely that more
> people here remember the problems and may have had their views
> affected.
>
> It will also be interesting to see if the controversies surrounding
> climate science have any effect on scientists' ranking in the annual
> MORI survey of trust in the professions, which I think is due to be
> published in October.
>
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