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Social
Equity and Distributional Impacts
of Science
and Technology
Phone Survey
With the purpose of
tracing the citizens' experiences and preferences for S&T outcomes and
preference, a survey on public perceptions and understanding of science and
technology awas carried out. Specific lines of inquiry where:
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perceptions about
science and technology
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views of government and science
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views of science and scientists
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views of ethics, experiments and
human subjects
research.
Many of the items in
this survey are consistent with previous studies of perceptions and
understanding of science and technology conducted by the Virginia Commonwealth
University, Pew Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
The survey was
designed by Barry Bozeman and Mary Feeney at RVM, Georgia Institute of
Technology. It was
then implemented by Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at Arizona
State University administered to a national random sample.
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