%0 Journal Article
%T Cultural determinants in the perception of science
%A Pietro Greco
%J JCOM : Journal of Science Communication
%D 2008
%I SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
%X Those studying the public understanding of science and risk perception have held it clear for long: the relation between information and judgment elaboration is not a linear one at all. Among the reasons behind it, on the one hand, data never are totally Ħ°bareĦħ and culturally neutral; on the other hand, in formulating a judgment having some value, the analytic component intertwines ¨C sometimes unpredictably ¨C with the cultural history and the personal elaboration of anyone of us.
%U http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/02/Jcom0702%282008%29E/Jcom0702%282008%29E.pdf