Georgia State University, USA.
Public Underst Sci. 2023 Jul;32(5):580-595. doi: 10.1177/09636625221146453. Epub 2023 Jan 12.
The public understanding of science has produced a large body of research about general attitudes toward science. However, most studies of science attitudes have been carried out via surveys or in experimental conditions, and few make use of the growing contexts of online science communication to investigate attitudes without researcher intervention. This study adopted corpus-based discourse analysis to investigate the negative attitudes held toward science by users of the social media website Reddit, specifically the forum r/science. A large corpus of comments made to r/science was collected and mined for keywords. Analysis of keywords identified several sources of negative attitudes, such as claims that scientists can be corruptible, poor communicators, and misleading. Research methodologies were negatively evaluated on the basis of small sample sizes. Other commenters negatively evaluated social science research, especially psychology, as being pseudoscientific, and several commenters described science journalism as untrustworthy or sensationalized.
公众对科学的理解产生了大量关于一般科学态度的研究。然而，大多数科学态度的研究都是通过调查或实验条件进行的，很少有研究利用不断发展的在线科学传播环境，在没有研究人员干预的情况下调查态度。本研究采用基于语料库的话语分析方法，调查了社交媒体网站 Reddit 用户对科学的负面态度，特别是 r/science 论坛。收集并挖掘了大量对 r/science 发表的评论，以获取关键词。对关键词的分析确定了一些负面态度的来源，例如声称科学家可能腐败、沟通能力差和具有误导性。研究方法因样本量小而受到负面评价。其他评论者也对社会科学研究，尤其是心理学，持负面评价，认为其是伪科学的，一些评论者还将科学新闻描述为不可信或耸人听闻的。
