Alternative Bias for Understanding the World? An Analysis of the Perception of Undergraduate Students in Biological Sciences About
Pseudoscience is able to deceive even the most skeptical individuals due to its tactic of mimicking the processes of science, from simulating a methodology and a scientific language, to inducing a rationality. Therefore, considering this trick of pseudoscience, this study aimed to analyze the percep...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências (ABRAPEC) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/46907 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rbpec/article/view/46907 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | scientific negationism Pseudoscience pre-service teacher negacionismo científico Pseudociência formação inicial de professores Pseudociencia formación inicial |
| Sumario: | Pseudoscience is able to deceive even the most skeptical individuals due to its tactic of mimicking the processes of science, from simulating a methodology and a scientific language, to inducing a rationality. Therefore, considering this trick of pseudoscience, this study aimed to analyze the perception of undergraduate students in Biological Sciences about the general characteristics of pseudoscience, since these students are in the process of training and may act to combat the anti-science front. To achieve our goal, we applied a questionnaire of agreement with a Likert-type scale, and its results were analyzed from the average ranking of the answers obtained. In total, 56 undergraduates and 32 undergraduates participated. The results of the research show that students do not differentiate scientific denialism from pseudoscience and remain in a field of neutrality when dealing with the criterion of falsifiability proposed Popper (1959) to characterize the Sciences. |
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