No statistical difference between liberal and conservative students in the importance they placed on climate change¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2021: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Liberal- and conservative-identifying students did not differ statistically in how important they felt the issue of climate change was. → Carter 2016

Evidence¶

Carter 2016¶

Carter, B. E., and Wiles, J. R. (2016). Comparing effects of comedic and authoritative video presentations on student knowledge and attitudes about climate change. Bioscene, 42(1), 16-24. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1103782

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Attitude survey comparison in the quasi-experiment found no statistical difference between liberal and conservative students on the importance of climate change. The article prints no test statistic or effect size for this contrast.

"Encouragingly, this study also found little evidence for politicization of climate change in that there was no statistical difference between liberal- and conservative-identifying students in terms of how important they felt the issue of climate change was for them."

Discussion¶

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