The SciPop Scale for measuring science-related populist attitudes in surveys: Development, test, and validation

摘要: Populism typically pits political elites against “the virtuous people.” A distinct variant of populism (“science-related opulism”) extends beyond politics, however, targeting academic and suggesting they ignore people’s common sense will. Individual endorsement such worldviews populist attitudes”) has been conceptualized but not yet measured. Hence, we developed the SciPop Scale, a survey instrument to measure science-related attitudes. We tested 17 items in first representative an 8-item scale. then German, French, Italian versions this scale second survey, employing confirmatory factor analysis, Item Response Theory, external validity tests. Findings show that Scale is robust reliable demands toward science.