The importance of different literacies in recognizing pseudoscience

V magistrskem delu smo preverjali, kako različne vrste pismenosti napovedujejo sposobnost prepoznavanja psevdoznanosti, pri čemer smo se osredotočali na štiri različne vrste pismenosti: medijsko, informacijsko, digitalno in novičarsko pismenost. Želeli smo ugotoviti, katere oblike pismenosti imajo najpomembnejšo vlogo pri določanju uspešnosti prepoznavanja psevdoznanstvenih objav. Pri tem nas je zanimala tudi vloga stališč pri sposobnosti prepoznavanja psevdoznanstvenih vsebin, pri čemer smo se osredotočali na stališča do cepljenja in stališča do homeopatije. Rezultati študije so pokazali, da je bila natančna identifikacija psevdoznanstvenih vsebin pomembno povezana zlasti z medijsko in novičarsko pismenostjo, vendar smo ugotovili, da posameznikova osebna stališča do obravnavanih tematik igrajo večjo vlogo pri dojemanju psevdoznanosti kot pismenosti. Ker gre za eno izmed redkih študij, ki proučuje povezavo med psevdoznanostjo in različnimi pismenostmi, bi lahko naša raziskava predstavljala sredstvo za zmanjševanje učinkov psevdoznanosti, ki jih ima ta na družbo in posameznike.In our master\u27s thesis, we examined how different literacies predict the ability to recognize pseudoscience, focusing on four different types of literacy, namely media, information, digital and news literacy. We wanted to find out which forms of literacy play the most important role in determining the success of identifying pseudoscientific content. We were also interested in the role of attitudes on the ability to recognize pseudoscientific content, focusing on attitudes toward vaccination and attitudes toward homeopathy. The results of the study thus showed that the accurate identification of pseudoscience content was significantly related above all to media and news literacy, but we concluded that the individual\u27s personal attitudes towards the topic in question play a greater role in the perception of pseudoscience than different literacies. Since our master\u27s thesis is one of the few studies that examine the connection between pseudoscience and different literacies, our research could represent a means of reducing the effects of pseudoscience and its power on society and individuals