Science and Media
About the Survey Theses surveys, conducted by SciOPS in partnership with AAAS SciLine, explores scientists’ perspectives on science communication and media engagement. It aims to understand scientists’ experiences with and opinions about interacting with the news media, covering topics such as past interview experiences, the benefits and risks of media engagement, and perspectives on university […]
Survey Overview and Demographics
General Overview
Geographic Coverage: United States
Expertise:
- 29% Biology
- 14% Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 9% Geography
- 48% Public Health
Response Overview
Sample Size: 3302
Valid Responses: 508
Response Rate: 15.5
Date initial findings posted: 04.15.21
Most recent update: 04.15.21
Days survey in field: 28
Average response time: 13
Survey Demographics
Respondent Demographics:
- 40% Female
- 60% Male
- 100% Academic
- 0% Industry
Language(s): English
About the Survey
Theses surveys, conducted by SciOPS in partnership with AAAS SciLine, explores scientists’ perspectives on science communication and media engagement. It aims to understand scientists’ experiences with and opinions about interacting with the news media, covering topics such as past interview experiences, the benefits and risks of media engagement, and perspectives on university media communications. This page displays results from half of the survey, with the remaining results available here.
Survey Sections
Survey Section 01
Supporting Scientists’ Engagement with the Media
Section Overview This survey, conducted by SciOPS in partnership with AAAS SciLine, covers scientists’ perspectives on science communication and media engagement. This survey aims to understand scientists’ experiences with and opinions about interacting with the news media. The survey explores scientists’ past interview experiences, the benefits, and risks of interacting with media, as well as […]
Survey Section 02
Opportunities to Share Research with the Broader Public
Section Overview This survey, conducted by SciOPS in partnership with AAAS SciLine, is on scientists’ perspectives on science communication and media engagement. This survey aims to understand scientists’ experiences with and opinions about interacting with the news media. The survey covers scientists’ past interview experiences, the benefits, and risks of interacting with media, as well […]
Survey Description
This national survey on science and media was conducted by the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies at Arizona State University and designed in collaboration with AAAS SciLine . The population for the survey represents a random sample of PhD-level faculty in four fields of science. Three fields– biology and genetics, civil and environmental engineering, and geography –were collected from 81 randomly selected Carnegie-designated Research Extensive and Intensive (R1) universities in the United States (US).
Public health faculty were collected from the full population of 62 universities with an accredited Public Health department. Public Health sub-disciplines included data science and statistics; health practice; science and medicine; social and behavioral sciences; organization, management and policy. The final sample included contact information for 3,303 scientists. A total of 508 usable responses were obtained, representing an AAPOR response rate (RR4) of 15.5%.
Sample weighting and Precision: the completed sample was weighted by the inverse of selection probabilities and post-stratified by gender and academic field to represent the population as closely as possible. A conservative measure of sampling error for questions answered by the full sample is plus or minus 5 percentage points. The survey was approved by Institutional Review Boards at Arizona State University and at the University of Illinois at Chicago.