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"People around the world have high levels of trust in scientists, and most want researchers to get more involved in policymaking, finds a global survey with more than 70,000 participants. But trust levels... differ among nations…
Social scientist Viktoria Cologna at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, and her colleagues surveyed 71,417 people in 67 countries… about the integrity, competency, benevolence and openness of scientists, on a scale of 1 to 5...
Across all participants, the average trust score was moderately high, at 3.62.
Participants from Egypt had the most trust in scientists, followed by India and Nigeria;
in Albania, Kazakhstan and Bolivia, people had the least trust.
Trust and politics
The study also explored the links between participants’ trust in scientists and their political leanings. At the global level, a ‘left-leaning’ political orientation was linked to higher trust. The team saw this association at the country level in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and China.
But of the 67 countries surveyed, in 41 — including New Zealand, Argentina and Mexico — the team found no significant association between political orientation and trust. And in some countries, including Georgia, Egypt, the Philippines, Nigeria and Greece, left-leaning views were linked to lower trust."
