Public perceptions of expert disagreement: Bias and incompetence or a complex and random world?
Abstract
Expert disputes can present laypeople with several challenges including trying to understand why such disputes occur. In an online survey of the US public, we used a psychometric approach to elicit perceptions of expert disputes for 56 forecasts sampled from seven domains. People with low education, or with low self-reported topic knowledge, were most likely to attribute disputes to expert incompetence. People with higher self-reported knowledge...
Paper Details
Title
Public perceptions of expert disagreement: Bias and incompetence or a complex and random world?
Published Date
Sep 7, 2015
Volume
26
Issue
3
Pages
325 - 338
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