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Credibility
About: Credibility is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13730 publications have been published within this topic receiving 331944 citations. The topic is also known as: believability & plausibility.
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TL;DR: The authors found that applicability, comprehensiveness, timing and accessibility (ACTA) better summarises the most important aspects of scientific research when it comes to influencing decision-making, while finding that CRELE was a poor predictor of policy-maker concerns.
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15 Mar 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, Voorberg argues that scholars should fully open up to these possibilities and make them part of the research agenda, because otherwise they risk damaging their own academic credibility, and concludes that while little research systematically studies the outcomes of co-creation or co-production, the research on this topic that is available focuses mainly on effectiveness.
Abstract: The normative tendency towards optimism tends to mask a number of potential pitfalls This chapter addresses seven potential evils of co-creation and co-production: the deliberate rejection of responsibility, failing accountability, rising transaction costs, loss of democracy, reinforced inequalities, implicit demands and co-destruction It argues that scholars should fully open up to these possibilities and make them part of the research agenda, because otherwise they risk damaging their own academic credibility Based on a review of literature on co-creation and co-production of public services, Voorberg concludes that while little research systematically studies the outcomes of co-creation or co-production, the research on this topic that is available focuses mainly on effectiveness In order to avoid pitfalls, co-creation and co-production need real investment of time and money by government, but also an openness to comprehend the concerns of different actors involved
78 citations
TL;DR: Greater uncertainty was associated with increased scientists’ credibility ratings for those reading dioxin regulation articles and decreased scientists” credibility ratingsFor those reading wolf reintroduction articles, and the effects of divergence induced uncertainty differed by news story.
Abstract: Surveys suggest that approximately one third of news consumers have encountered conflicting reports of the same information. News coverage of science is especially prone to conflict, but how news c...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined socio-economic status (SES) differences in parents' web use, skills, and satisfaction, and found that the higher the SES level, the greater the use of the Web; the more sophisticated the search skills (e.g., selecting one's own search engine rather than relying on a default; changing keywords).
78 citations
TL;DR: As bodies piled up, the United States' response to the 'Spanish flu' was to tell the public that there was no cause for alarm, and authority figures who glossed over the truth lost their credibility, says John M Barry.
Abstract: As bodies piled up, the United States' response to the 'Spanish flu' was to tell the public that there was no cause for alarm. The authority figures who glossed over the truth lost their credibility, says John M. Barry.
78 citations