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Record W7128209661 · doi:10.4324/9781003476580-14

Where the Conflict Really Lies

2025· book-chapter· en· W7128209661 on OpenAlex
James C. Riley, Fern Elsdon-Baker

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPeace and Human Rights Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFraming (construction)ReductionismPopulationEvolutionary theoryEvolutionary psychologySociocultural evolutionEvolutionary anthropologyPerception

Abstract

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This chapter builds on the authors’ previous critiques of standard reductionist or conflict-orientated issues framing in the measurement of publics’ attitudes towards evolutionary science that can lead to overestimations of evolution rejection. Through the development of new and more sophisticated approaches to cross-cultural surveys, more nuanced drivers of global publics’ attitudes towards evolutionary science, including humans’ origins, have emerged. These approaches have evidenced that the rejection of evolutionary science is not a necessary component of religious belief in the UK, Canada, and the US, confirming the sometimes surprising social complexities around questions of human origins for both religious and non-religious groups. Since this initial research was undertaken, there has been a revisiting of the baseline assumptions and implicit biases in surveys around evolutionary science. However, the majority of these newer studies have remained focussed on North American and UK populations, leaving much of the world understudied.<br/><br/>This chapter utilises new international survey data from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, the UK, and the USA focussed on publics’ perceptions and lived experience of the relationships between science, religion, and evolution. This new research not only undertakes research across differing cultural contexts, it expands upon previous studies and deploys more sophisticated measures regarding attitudes around evolutionary science. Importantly, we identify not only evolution rejection by individuals within populations but also processes of social projection – whereby individuals expect to find evolution rejection within their own or others’ social groups. This allows the measurement not only of which sections of the population have concerns about evolutionary science but indicates how wider the social and cultural narratives surrounding evolutionary science might lead individuals or groups to perceive their social identity as being in conflict with evolutionary science endorsement. Finally, we discuss the results of measures that place evolution rejection within the context of the rejection of other science consensus positions, including anthropogenic climate change, vaccine safety, and the spherical nature of the earth.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.565
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.279 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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