Six Americas Survey Findings Among Visitors to Science & Technology Museums

More great material from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. This particular research is valuable for informal educators at museums, zoos, aquariums and other science and technology centers across the country.

Knowledge of Climate Change Among Science & Technology Museum Visitors reports results from a national study of what the American public understands about how the climate system works, and the causes, impacts and potential solutions to global warming. This report describes how knowledge of climate change varies across Science and Technology Museum visitors. Using a straight grading scale, 38% of both occasional and frequent museum visitors received a passing grade (A, B, or C), compared to 19% of non-visitors. While knowledge levels vary across the groups, these results also indicate that relatively few museum visitors have an in-depth understanding of climate change.

You can read the full report here.