Since the 2008 financial crisis, politicians from a range of parties and countries have reported losing respect for experts.
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Many Americans think they know much more about politics than they really do. That overconfidence can thwart democratic politics.
Our study found encouraging people to do their own research comes with risks – including shifting too much responsibility onto the individual.
Critical thinking means seeking out new information – especially facts that might run contrary to what you believe – and being willing to change your mind. And it’s a teachable skill.
It’s human nature to unconsciously rely on quick rules to help make spur-of-the-moment decisions. New research finds physicians use these shortcuts, too, which can be bad news for some patients.
Some so-called superforecasters are claimed to have predicted the course of the pandemic better than scientific experts.
Research shows men’s voices are heard in media reports far more frequently than women’s. Here are some ways journalists and sources can improve this.
More women are making appearances in the news media, and this is due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is not all good news: women are interviewed about the effects of the pandemic on their lives.
How much weight would you put on a scientist’s expertise versus the opinion of a random stranger? People on either end of the political spectrum decide differently what seems true.
The Trump administration has revised CDC health guidelines and undermined its own experts, making it harder for science to prevail over politics in US’s coronavirus strategy.
The prime minister’s adviser claims to have warned about coronavirus pandemics last year. The internet nerds say otherwise.
Behind the scenes, authors have put in long days in research labs, hospitals or teaching online from home, often while juggling kids – before writing into the night for The Conversation.
The coronavirus crisis has given experts and specialists worldwide a lot of power. As countries like New Zealand begin to recover, we need to question that power more than ever.
The science of politics became popular across Europe, alongside the rise of capitalism and empire in the 19th century.
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains. Enter the human universal of shamanism.
The shocking lack of gender balance is not just bad for women. It’s doing the public a major disservice.
A public meeting of flat earthers is a product and sign of our times.
Journalists are often under deadline pressure, which is why, says Crikey’s Emily Watkins, they return again and again to the same experts. Those who give good quotes are often also pretty good at making…
Promising scientific consensus is a perilous principle on which to found meaningful engagement between experts and the public.
Everything we know about the way experts’ brains work tells us that Mayweather is likely to win the fight.
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Susan Lawler is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, School of Sociology; Geary Fellow, Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
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Vice-Chancellor, Western Sydney University
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Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in Media Psychology, University of Salford
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Professor of Economics, UCL
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Faculty Fellow (iHuman), University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor, Journalism, Curtin University
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Professor of Politics, Massey University
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PhD Student, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus professor, La Trobe University
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Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
