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DOI | DOI10.1088/1748-9326/abbc3c |
When IPCC graphs can foster or bias understanding: evidence among decision-makers from governmental and non-governmental institutions | |
Helen Fischer; Karlijn L van den Broek; Kilian Ramisch; Yasmina Okan | |
2020-11-20 | |
发表期刊 | Environmental Research Letters
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出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | To develop effective climate change policy, decision-makers need to have the best possible understanding of the available climate science. The IPCC Assessment Reports therefore aim to lay the foundation for informed political decision-making by providing policy-relevant information. But how successful are IPCC reports at communicating key findings? Although IPCC reports display key information in graphs, the interpretation of such graphs has received little attention. Here we provide an empirical evaluation of IPCC graph comprehension among IPCC target audience (N = 110), (political) decision-makers from climate-related (non-)governmental organizations from 54 countries, and a comparative sample of German junior diplomats, representing future international decision-makers (N = 33). We assess comprehension of current climate change risk visualizations using two IPCC graphs, one that employs principles of intuitive design, and one that violates principles of intuitive design. Results showed that (i) while a minority of IPCC target audience misinterpreted the intuitive graph, (ii) the majority of participants systematically misinterpreted the counter-intuitive graph, drawing the opposite conclusion from what was meant to be conveyed by the graph, despite (iii) having high confidence in the accuracy of their interpretation. Since misinterpretation of IPCC graphs does not allow for optimal use of the scientific information for policy-making, the results emphasize the importance of IPCC graphs that follow the principles of intuitive design. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/304258 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Helen Fischer,Karlijn L van den Broek,Kilian Ramisch,et al. When IPCC graphs can foster or bias understanding: evidence among decision-makers from governmental and non-governmental institutions[J]. Environmental Research Letters,2020. |
APA | Helen Fischer,Karlijn L van den Broek,Kilian Ramisch,&Yasmina Okan.(2020).When IPCC graphs can foster or bias understanding: evidence among decision-makers from governmental and non-governmental institutions.Environmental Research Letters. |
MLA | Helen Fischer,et al."When IPCC graphs can foster or bias understanding: evidence among decision-makers from governmental and non-governmental institutions".Environmental Research Letters (2020). |
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