“We know best” & curiosity
Madison students have long endured the disastrous results of “we know best“.
Reading Recovery and Connected Math are two prominent examples.
The question then is whether there is an effective way to prime people to be more science-curious — which could then also have political ramifications.
“It’s an asset that there’s a segment of the population that has that kind of disposition, so what you want to do is exploit it to the greatest extent,” Kahan says. “And if we’re lucky, it will percolate into other people with whom they have interactions.”
