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Table 5 Standardized betas (and semi-partial coefficients) for background variables predicting scale scores in the entry and exit populations

From: “Evolution for Everyone”: A Course that Expands Evolutionary Theory Beyond the Biological Sciences

 

Social objections

Factual knowledge

Relevance

Entry

Exit

Entry

Exit

Entry

Exit

Class level

−.001 (−.001)

.077 (.064)

.079 (.067)

.095 (.079)

.072 (.061)

.163 (.136)

Level of evolutionary training

−.085 (−.078)

−.061 (−.056)

.286 (.264)***

.122 (.112)

.302 (.279)***

.076 (.070)

Political activity

.045 (.041)

−.266 (−.234)*

.075 (.068)

.356 (.313)***

.146 (.131)

.278 (.245)**

Religious activity

.032 (.012)

.346 (.098)

−.135 (−.049)

−.489 (−.139)

.017 (.006)

−.377 (−.107)

Liberalism

−.392 (−.195)*

−.013 (−.006)

.070 (.035)

.137 (.058)

.253 (.127)

.229 (.098)

Christiana

−.798 (−.180)*

.370 (.080)

−.198 (−.045)

−.146 (−.032)

.191 (.043)

−.072 (−.016)

Jewisha

−.785 (−.156)*

.414 (.080)

.173 (.034)

−.559 (−.108)

.121 (.024)

−.731 (−.141)

Agnostic/atheista

−.017 (−.010)

.304 (.168)

.058 (.035)

−.201 (−.111)

.080 (.048)

−.234 (−.129)

Christian × religious activity

.093 (.028)

−.208 (−.051)

.022 (.007)

.477 (−.118)

−.149 (−.044)

.370 (.092)

Jewish × religious activity

.319 (.109)

.104 (.030)

−.125 (−.043)

.354 (.100)

−.196 (−.067)

.384 (.109)

Christian × liberalism

.624 (.189)*

.016 (.004)

.090 (.027)

−.338 (−.095)

−.178 (−.054)

−.448 (−.125)

Jewish × liberalism

.628 (.145)

−.181 (−.041)

.038 (.009)

.128 (.029)

.064 (.015)

.143 (.032)

Political activity × liberalism

.023 (.021)

.022 (.021)

−.056 (−.053)

−.021 (−.020)

−.038 (−.036)

.045 (.042)

Biological sciencesb

−.027 (−.024)

−.121 (−.104)

.071 (.062)

.190 (.163)

−.036 (−.032)

.053 (.045)

Social sciencesb

−.016 (−.012)

−.217 (−.163)

.056 (.044)

.144 (.108)

.100 (.078)

.133 (.100)

Humanitiesb

−.058 (−.052)

−.260 (−.233)*

.040 (.036)

−.040 (−.036)

.051 (.046)

−.030 (−.027)

Hard sciencesb

.049 (.044)

−.276 (−.238)*

.005 (.005)

.075 (.065)

−.158 (−.143)*

−.075 (−.064)

Total R 2

.01

.08

.12

.21

.22

.22

  1. Semi-partial correlation reflects the unique relationship between each variable and the given scale score (entry—N = 165; exit—105)
  2. *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001
  3. aDesignates dummy variable where “1” represents an individual of that religious affiliation
  4. bDesignates dummy variable where “1” represents an individual whose major is in that division