Corrigendum

• Published date: 01 January 2019
• DOI: 10.1177/0002716218811652
• Date: 01 January 2019
• Subject Matter: Corrigendum

272 ANNALS, AAPSS, 681, January 2019

DOI: 10.1177/0002716218811652

Corrigendum

Bolsen, Toby, James N. Druckman, and Fay Lomax Cook. 2015. Citizens’,

Scientists’, and Policy Advisors’ Beliefs about Global Warming. The Annals of the

American Academy of Political and Social Science 658 (1): 271–95. doi:

10.1177/0002716214558393

There is an error in the bottom half of Figure 2 in Bolsen, Druckman, and Cook

(2015), which displays the predicted belief “Global Warming Is Anthropogenic”

for conservatives and liberals at the minimum and maximum levels of knowledge.

In the original Figure 2, the values for minimum knowledge and maximum knowl-

edge conservatives and liberals were mistakenly transposed; therefore the slopes

of the lines are the opposite of what was correctly communicated in the corre-

sponding text. Also in the original Figure 2, lower values correspond to a greater

belief that climate change is human-caused; this is unduly confusing, owing to the

fact that we reverse-coded data from estimations presented in Table2.

A revised Figure 2 (below) presents new simulated predicted values using

Clarify for minimum knowledge and maximum knowledge liberals and

conservatives in the public sample, with higher values indicating greater belief

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FIGURE 2

Bottom half: higher scores associated with a greater belief that global

warming is a result of anthropogenic causes