Many of the examples in the table (especially “values,” “bias,” and “error”) aren’t the result of a knowledge gap, but of a simple definitional dispute.
It’s not clear to me which is the case, actually. It would be difficult to dispute the assertion that the average layman is almost always primed to read “positive” as “good” rather than “present” or “upward,” but that doesn’t indicate whether or not he’s actually aware of those alternate uses. Maybe he’s never been exposed to scientific literature—that wouldn’t exactly be shocking.
I wish I could access the original paper the table was published in. Alas!
It’s not clear to me which is the case, actually. It would be difficult to dispute the assertion that the average layman is almost always primed to read “positive” as “good” rather than “present” or “upward,” but that doesn’t indicate whether or not he’s actually aware of those alternate uses. Maybe he’s never been exposed to scientific literature—that wouldn’t exactly be shocking.
I wish I could access the original paper the table was published in. Alas!