Feel free to message me if you didn't get a chance to see the poster in person and you would like a copy!

Many thanks to my co-authors, @ramblecamble.bsky.social, Kristen Damico, @danovitch.bsky.social, @candicemmills.bsky.social, and to you for reading through this thread!

Here's the link to the article: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
And here's the accepted manuscript on OSF (if you can't access the article through the publisher): doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Big takeaway: Parents are likely underestimating their children's interest in science, and their judgments are biased by their own science attitudes. A big next step would be seeing if these perceptions by parents relate to the science opportunities they provide their children.

We did find a source of bias in parents though: Parents who held more positive attitudes toward science themselves judged their children to be more interested in science (and vice-versa), suggesting an assumed-similarity bias among parents.

Overall, parents showed some accuracy in judging their children's interests. However, they were more accurate when judging non-science topics, and they tended to *underestimate* children's interest in science topics.

We asked children how much they were interested in five science and five non-science topics, and parents judged their children's level of interest in the same topics.