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

维基百科中科学信息的接收和生产：事后偏见的影响

• 批准号: 384047031
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Steffen Nestler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Sozialpsychologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/384047031?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. In the first project we proposed that hindsight bias facilitates the handling of conflicting evidence by focussing on outcome consistent information. Our findings support this notion both, for recipients as well as for producers of web contents. However, hindsight bias in Wikipedia articles was limited to one particular type of events - disasters. In the present research proposal we suggest three poten-tial explanations for this pattern of results and it is one of the four main goals of this project to test which explanation accounts for the results. Secondly we aim at identifying the underlying mechanisms of the reception effects we obtained: hindsight bias increased in readers of articles that were biased by hindsight above and beyond their prior individual (classic) hindsight bias. The third major goal of this research proposal is to investigate the interplay of reception and production processes that arise in the context of dynamic revisions such as in Wikipedia. Last but not least, the fourth major goal of the project is to examine potential countermeasures against hindsight bias both, in the production and reception of web contents. We will make use of a combination of field and lab studies in order to ensure both, external and internal validity of our findings.

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。在第一个项目中，我们提出，后见之明偏见有利于处理冲突的证据集中在结果一致的信息。我们的研究结果支持这一概念，为收件人以及生产者的网络内容。然而，维基百科文章中的后见之明偏见仅限于一种特定类型的事件-灾难。在本研究建议中，我们对这种结果模式提出了三种可能的解释，并且测试哪种解释解释了结果是本项目的四个主要目标之一。其次，我们的目标是确定我们获得的接收效果的潜在机制：后见之明偏见增加的文章，后见之明偏见以上，超越他们以前的个人（经典）后见之明偏见的读者。本研究提案的第三个主要目标是调查在动态修订（如维基百科）的背景下出现的接收和生产过程的相互作用。最后但并非最不重要的是，该项目的第四个主要目标是研究在网络内容的制作和接收中对后见之明偏见的潜在对策。我们将利用现场和实验室研究相结合，以确保我们的研究结果的外部和内部有效性。