Scientific consensus

Scientific consensus is the common opinion or agreement of most scientists in a certain field at a specific time.^[1]^[2]

Agreement is reached through scientists talking at conferences, publishing their work, others repeating their experiments to check results, discussions among experts, and reviewing each other's work.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Scientific Consensus Media

Using climate change as an example, there is significant scientific agreement among climate scientists that humans cause global warming (as of 2011)
Scientific consensus among publishing climatologists on human-caused global warming (as of 2021)
The public substantially underestimates the degree of scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change. Studies from 2019 to 2021 found scientific consensus to range from 98.7 to 100%.

References

↑ Ordway, Denise-Marie. Covering scientific consensus: What to avoid and how to get it right (in en-US). The Journalist's Resource (2021-11-23). Retrieved 2022-09-11.
↑ Scientific ConsensusGreen Facts. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
↑ Laudan, Larry. Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate (1984). London, England, UK: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05267-6.
↑ Ford, Michael. Disciplinary authority and accountability in scientific practice and learning. Science Education 92 (3) (2008). p. 409. doi:10.1002/sce.20263.
↑ Webster, Gregory D.. The person-situation interaction is increasingly outpacing the person-situation debate in the scientific literature: A 30-year analysis of publication trends, 1978-2007. Journal of Research in Personality 43 (2) (2009). p. 278–279. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.030.
↑ Horstmann, K. T., & Ziegler, M. (2016). Situational Perception: Its Theoretical Foundation, Assessment, and Links to Personality. In U. Kumar (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment (1st ed., pp. 31–43). Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. ("In Personality Assessment, Walter Mischel focused on the instability of personality and claimed that it is nearly impossible to predict behavior with personality (Mischel, 1968, 2009). This led to the person-situation debate, a controversy in psychology that sought to answer the question whether behavior depended more on the subject's personality or the situation (or both) and has received considerable research attention (Webster, 2009).")

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[1] Ordway, Denise-Marie. Covering scientific consensus: What to avoid and how to get it right (in en-US). The Journalist's Resource (2021-11-23). Retrieved 2022-09-11.

[2] Scientific ConsensusGreen Facts. Retrieved October 24, 2016.

[3] Laudan, Larry. Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate (1984). London, England, UK: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05267-6.

[4] Ford, Michael. Disciplinary authority and accountability in scientific practice and learning. Science Education 92 (3) (2008). p. 409. doi:10.1002/sce.20263.

[5] Webster, Gregory D.. The person-situation interaction is increasingly outpacing the person-situation debate in the scientific literature: A 30-year analysis of publication trends, 1978-2007. Journal of Research in Personality 43 (2) (2009). p. 278–279. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.030.

[6] Horstmann, K. T., & Ziegler, M. (2016). Situational Perception: Its Theoretical Foundation, Assessment, and Links to Personality. In U. Kumar (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment (1st ed., pp. 31–43). Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. ("In Personality Assessment, Walter Mischel focused on the instability of personality and claimed that it is nearly impossible to predict behavior with personality (Mischel, 1968, 2009). This led to the person-situation debate, a controversy in psychology that sought to answer the question whether behavior depended more on the subject's personality or the situation (or both) and has received considerable research attention (Webster, 2009).")

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