Quantitative Media Literacy: Individual Differences in Dealing with Numbers in the News
Quantitative Media Literacy: Individual Differences in Dealing with Numbers in the News
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定量媒体素养:处理新闻中数字的个体差异
DOI:
10.1080/15213260903287275
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发表时间:
2009
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影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
R. Gibson
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作者:
D. Zillmann;Coy Callison;R. Gibson
A test of arithmetic aptitude was developed and validated. The consequences of individual differences in this aspect of quantitative literacy were then determined for attention to, and dependent recall of, numeric quantities embedded in printed news reports. It was found that persons of high arithmetic aptitude recalled frequencies and ratios more correctly, both in precise and approximate terms, than did persons of low arithmetic aptitude. This effect was consistent across gender of respondent. It was also consistent across commonly employed presentational formats of numeric quantities. The inferior processing of numeric quantities by persons of low quantitative literacy, especially the dependent estimation of risk and benefit likelihoods, is considered in terms of theories that project these persons' greater reliance on intuitive assessments of the incidence of occurrences.
DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.27.2.307
发表时间:
2001-03
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Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
影响因子:
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作者:
C. Brainerd;Ron Wright;V. Reyna;A. H. Mojardín
通讯作者:
C. Brainerd;Ron Wright;V. Reyna;A. H. Mojardín