论文标题
“这项研究有多值得信赖？”设计一种工具来帮助读者了解科学新闻中的证据和不确定性
"How trustworthy is this research?" Designing a Tool to Help Readers Understand Evidence and Uncertainty in Science Journalism
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论文摘要
本文通过设计研究报告了一项研究，探讨了如何设计一种工具，以帮助科学新闻学的读者了解有关健康科学新闻故事中科学证据的力量和不确定性，同时使用文本和视觉信息。一个核心目的是向读者传授评估科学证据的标准，特别是为了帮助读者区分科学和伪科学。该研究在与流行科学网站的野外合作中合作，介绍了科学证据指标的设计和评估，该指标使用元数据有关科学出版物的元数据，向读者介绍证据力量的评估。对设计的评估表明，在帮助读者认识到研究是否经历了科学同行评审方面的成功表明，但指出了促进更深入理解的挑战。从研究的洞察力到开发针对记者而不是直接对观众的类似工具的潜力。
This article reports on a Research through Design study exploring how to design a tool for helping readers of science journalism understand the strength and uncertainty of scientific evidence in news stories about health science, using both textual and visual information. A central aim has been to teach readers about criteria for assessing scientific evidence, in particular in order to help readers differentiate between science and pseudoscience. Working in a research-in-the-wild collaboration with a website for popular science, the study presents the design and evaluation of the Scientific Evidence Indicator, which uses metadata about scientific publications to present an assessment of evidence strength to the readers. Evaluations of the design demonstrate some success in helping readers recognize whether studies have undergone scientific peer review or not, but point to challenges in facilitating a more in-depth understanding. Insights from the study point to a potential for developing similar tools aimed at journalists rather than directly at audiences.
