tailieunhanh - Innovations in Biotechnology Part 15

Tham khảo tài liệu 'innovations in biotechnology part 15', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Gender Knowledge Scientific Expertise and Attitudes Toward Biotechnology Technological Salience and the Use of Knowledge to Generate Attitudes 411 elsewhere begun to perform more direct tests of technological salience with Katherine Johnson Johnson and Simon . but more research needs to be done to rule out alternative hypotheses. Perhaps there is some other gender division that is causing men and women to use knowledge in such disparate ways. The technological salience hypothesis is consistent with the findings presented here but more direct tests need to be performed before it can be accepted with confidence. 5. Conclusions This chapter has sought to utilize the technological salience hypothesis to better understand gender differences in attitudes toward biotechnology. The analyses presented here support the idea that the salience of technologies to one s lived experiences engender unique criteria with which to evaluate those technologies. Based on previous research that has suggested that biotechnologies are especially salient for women compared to men it was predicted that women would be less likely to discount their own knowledge in forming attitudes than men. This prediction was affirmed. Further analyses of the Eurobarometer indicated that for men who concede science policy to experts higher levels of scientific knowledge lead to a lesser likelihood of being pessimistic of biotechnology while for men who insist that science policy should be the public s responsibility higher levels of scientific knowledge lead to a greater likelihood of being pessimistic about biotechnology. While the analyses support the technological salience hypothesis further research should use more direct measures of salience rather than assuming gender automatically determines salience as I have done. 6. References Allum N. Boy D. Bauer . 2002 . European regions and the knowledge deficit model. In Biotechnology The Making of a Global Controversy edited by Bauer . Gaskell