Ohio University, USA.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Public Underst Sci. 2024 Nov;33(8):998-1008. doi: 10.1177/09636625241237748. Epub 2024 Apr 3.
Previous research has examined people's attitudes toward science and scientists, highlighting how religious identities, beliefs, or behavior shapes these attitudes. However, survey design choices have been previously shown to influence individuals' attitudes toward religion and science. We investigated the extent to which question ordering (i.e. presenting questions about science before questions about religion or the paranormal) in a large-scale survey would influence respondents' attitudes toward science and religion. Utilizing an experimental design, we found that responding to science questions first led to (1) more interest in science, (2) more confidence in the scientific community, (3) increased agreement that science is a way of knowing truth, (4) more confidence in responding to science knowledge items, (5) more agreement to scientific statements, and (6) more trust in scientists. We discuss the implications of question ordering when analyzing attitudes toward science and religion within the same surveys and future directions for research.
先前的研究考察了人们对科学和科学家的态度，强调了宗教身份、信仰或行为如何塑造这些态度。然而，调查设计选择以前曾被证明会影响个人对宗教和科学的态度。我们调查了在大规模调查中，问题顺序（即先提出关于科学的问题，然后再提出关于宗教或超自然的问题）在多大程度上会影响受访者对科学和宗教的态度。利用实验设计，我们发现首先回答科学问题会导致：（1）对科学更感兴趣；（2）对科学界更有信心；（3）更认同科学是一种获取真理的方式；（4）对回答科学知识项目更有信心；（5）更同意科学陈述；以及（6）对科学家更信任。我们讨论了当在同一调查中分析对科学和宗教的态度时，问题顺序的影响，以及未来研究的方向。
