Eva Thomm|Rainer Bromme
“It should at least seem scientific!” Textual features of “scientificness” and their impact on lay assessments of online information
abstract internet convenient source information sciencebased topics eg health matters whereas experts familiar conventions true scientific discourse assessment scientific information laypeople may great difficulty choosing among evaluating deciding vast amount information available online basis fragmentary understanding science evaluation sciencebased text information may require least rudimentary understanding norms scientific discourse two studies investigated whether laypeople adequate grasp makes text scientific whether perceptions text scientificness contribute evaluation credibility online text information furthermore investigated whether laypeople distinguish judgments sciencebased information expect experts make indicating divergence understanding official science personal beliefs 2011 wiley periodicals inc sci ed 96 187211 2012