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Fostering Scientific and Numerate Practices in Journalism to Support Rapid Public Learning
2017
Numeracy
Journalism has the potential--and arguably the mandate--to expand public understanding of societally important phenomena. However, some methods for more effectively educating the public have been persistently underutilized: in particular, embedding informative numerical rates and efficient scientific explanations in news reports. In the current era of disrupting and downsizing the news business, the challenges to using such methods have only increased. To address this problem, this article
doi:10.5038/1936-4660.10.1.3
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