Reception and production of scientific information in Wikipedia: The influence of hindsight bias and social categorization

维基百科中科学信息的接收和生产：事后偏见和社会分类的影响

• 批准号: 242094685
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Steffen Nestler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/242094685?language=en
• 关键词: Reception; production; scientific; information; Wikipedia

When laypersons search the Internet for information they are frequently confronted with a variety of scientific findings, which are often inconsistent and thus provide a challenge for the recipient. We propose that two processes - the hindsight bias and social categorizations - facilitate the handling of conflicting evidence. While people in hindsight focus on outcome consistent information, social categorizations lead to a preference for information that is consistent with one's attitude (and one's in-group) as well as a degradation of attitude inconsistent information.Since the development of the Web 2.0, however, users may not only read scientific information but also produce science-related information on the Web. Therefore we propose that both processes should likewise be observed for authors of web contents. The aim of the project is to investigate whether a hindsight bias and social categorizations can be observed in recipients as well as pro-ducers of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Additionally we will examine the efficacy of three strategies that might reduce the hindsight bias as well as the effects of social categorizations. We expect the results to complement the previous findings regarding the reception of conflicting scien-tific evidence and to further our theoretical understanding of the relationship between individual and collective information processing.

当外行人在互联网上搜索信息时，他们经常会遇到各种各样的科学发现，这些发现往往是不一致的，因此给接受者带来了挑战。我们建议，两个过程-后见之明的偏见和社会分类-促进处理相互矛盾的证据。虽然人们在事后关注的结果一致的信息，社会分类导致信息的偏好，是一致的，一个人的态度（和一个人的内组）以及态度不一致的信息的退化，但由于Web 2.0的发展，用户不仅可以阅读科学信息，而且还可以在Web上产生与科学相关的信息。因此，我们建议，这两个过程也应该观察到的网站内容的作者。该项目的目的是调查是否可以在在线百科全书维基百科的接受者和制作者中观察到后见之明的偏见和社会分类。此外，我们将研究三种策略的有效性，这些策略可能会减少后见之明偏见以及社会分类的影响。我们希望这些结果能够补充以前关于接受相互冲突的科学证据的发现，并进一步加深我们对个人和集体信息处理之间关系的理论理解。