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Survey reveals the polarized public perceptions of the polar regions
http://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/news/press-release/survey-reveals-the-polarized-public-perceptions-of-the-polar-regions#.VYRRoufIync[font face=Serif]June 2015, Oxford.
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[font size=3] Writing in Polar Geography, Lawrence Hamilton, Senior Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire, examines the results of a series of New Hampshire state surveys conducted from 2011 to 2015 that tracked public knowledge of some basic polar facts.
Hamilton’s analysis indicates that these facts subjectively fall into two categories; those that are, and those that are not directly connected to people’s beliefs about climate change.
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At odds with the low levels of factual knowledge, most respondents reported that they had a “moderate amount” or a “great deal” of understanding about climate change, where polar change has been a major area of interest.
A combination of low knowledge and high self-assessed understanding characterizes almost half of the sample, and correlates with political views. The low knowledge/high understanding combination is most prevalent among Tea Party supporters, where it reaches 61 percent. (Democrats, Independents and Republicans appear roughly similar at 41–47 percent). This pattern suggests that their sense of understanding about climate change more often has an ideological basis.
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[font size=5]Survey reveals the polarized public perceptions of the polar regions[/font]
[font size=3] Writing in Polar Geography, Lawrence Hamilton, Senior Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire, examines the results of a series of New Hampshire state surveys conducted from 2011 to 2015 that tracked public knowledge of some basic polar facts.
Hamilton’s analysis indicates that these facts subjectively fall into two categories; those that are, and those that are not directly connected to people’s beliefs about climate change.
…
At odds with the low levels of factual knowledge, most respondents reported that they had a “moderate amount” or a “great deal” of understanding about climate change, where polar change has been a major area of interest.
A combination of low knowledge and high self-assessed understanding characterizes almost half of the sample, and correlates with political views. The low knowledge/high understanding combination is most prevalent among Tea Party supporters, where it reaches 61 percent. (Democrats, Independents and Republicans appear roughly similar at 41–47 percent). This pattern suggests that their sense of understanding about climate change more often has an ideological basis.
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