| Title |
What People Believe about How Memory Works: A Representative Survey of the U.S. Population
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2011
|
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0022757 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Daniel J. Simons, Christopher F. Chabris |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 122 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 38 | 31% |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 9% |
| Canada | 6 | 5% |
| Australia | 3 | 2% |
| Spain | 2 | 2% |
| Finland | 2 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Sweden | 2 | 2% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 10 | 8% |
| Unknown | 45 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 85 | 70% |
| Scientists | 23 | 19% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 7 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 4% |
| Unknown | 2 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 291 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 2% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Sweden | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 275 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 60 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 50 | 17% |
| Researcher | 33 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 30 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 16 | 5% |
| Other | 54 | 19% |
| Unknown | 48 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 133 | 46% |
| Social Sciences | 21 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 3% |
| Computer Science | 10 | 3% |
| Other | 46 | 16% |
| Unknown | 61 | 21% |