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Public perceptions of industrial risks : the context of public attitudes toward radioactive waste.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Seattle, Washington : Battelle Memorial Institute. Social Change Study Center, 1981Description: viii, 65 pDDC classification:
  • 363.1799 PUB
Subject: The generation of knowledge regarding public risk perception in general, and perception of risks associated with nuclear power and radioactive waste management in particular, requires the development and use of appropriate survey methodologies. One of the fundamental limitations of many studies of public risk perception is the assumption on the part of the investigators of similarity between themselves and their respondents. An attempt was made in the present study to deal with this methodological issue through the use of "free response" survey items, which allow respondents to structure their responses in ways that make sense to them
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"Prepared for the Waste Management Systems Studies Program of the Pacific Northwest Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC06-76LO-1830"

Bibliography: p. 65-66

The generation of knowledge regarding public risk perception in general, and perception of risks associated with nuclear power and radioactive waste management in particular, requires the development and use of appropriate survey methodologies. One of the fundamental limitations of many studies of public risk perception is the assumption on the part of the investigators of similarity between themselves and their respondents. An attempt was made in the present study to deal with this methodological issue through the use of "free response" survey items, which allow respondents to structure their responses in ways that make sense to them

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