Most people don't know what a preprint is. Here's why that matters universityofga
During the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists were encouraged to convey uncertainty surrounding preliminary scientific evidence, including mentioning when research is unpublished or unverified by peer review. To understand how public audiences interpret this information, we conducted a mixed method study with U.S. adults. Participants read a news article about preprint COVID-19 vaccine research in early April 2021, just as the vaccine was becoming widely available to the U.S. public.
CR, AK, and JJ conceptualized the study and developed the questionnaire. CR and RW developed the experimental stimulus. JJ supervised data collection. CR performed quantitative analyses. CR and AF developed the codebook and analyzed the qualitative data. CR, AF, RW, and BH wrote the manuscript and AK and JJ provided substantive comments on the manuscript.
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