10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
[3H02] Measuring Science and Technology Literacy in Social Surveys
Factual Judgements about Energy Issues and Nuclear Power Generation
Keywords:awareness survey, literacy, knowledge, factual judgement, distribution
Whether publics have scientific literacy or not can be measured in terms of the accuracy of factual judgements behind decision making. Therefore, we designed questions to measure how people make factual judgements about energy issues and nuclear power generation, and conducted a social survey including these questions. We report the distributions, response patterns, and correlations between variables of the results.