From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 14:50:03 MST
This term, I am taking a sociology course that is part of the core
curriculum at my college. Part of the course is to actually create a
sociology project and complete it. I have decided to do a study of the
relationship, if any, between relative knowledge/understanding of
science and technology and fear of them. I think that the results of
this study might be helpful to Pro-Act and other technophilic groups to
further our agenda.
I plan on building a three part survey. The first part will collect
demographic data on the participant, the second will be a short battery
of true/false questions to evaluate the subjects understanding and
knowledge of science and technology, especially those of a
controversial nature, while the third part will ask their opinions of
the need to control the development and use of various sciences and
technologies, which should reflect how fearful the subject is of said
science or technology.
Since list members here are involved in many different sciences and
technologies, I am asking for you to propose various true/false
questions from your own areas of expertise to include in the battery
which would be known to an informed layman, particularly questions
which deal with facts versus common urban myths about sciences or
technologies. Please contact me offlist at mailto:mlorrey@yahoo.com
with your contributions.
Once I've built the survey, I'll be making it an online survey for list
members to promote across the internet, though I do not want list
members who help me construct the survey to become subjects, for
objectivities sake.
Thanks,
Mike Lorrey
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