More than half of surveyed Finnish respondents agreed in 2021 that scientists should be involved in political debates in order to ensure decisions are made in accordance with scientific evidence. Only two percent of the respondents totally disagreed with this idea.
To what extent do you agree with the statement that scientists should intervene in political debate in order to ensure that decisions take into account scientific evidence?
The source adds the following information: "Some 26,827 respondents in the 27 EU Member States were interviewed in their mother tongue and the data was weighted to be socio-demographically representative at country level. The survey was also conducted in 11 other countries or territories, where a total of 10,276 respondents were interviewed in their mother tongue: five candidate countries (Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey), as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Kosovo, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In total, 37,103 respondents from EU and non-EU countries and territories took part in the survey."
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