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Table 1 Results of POLR analysis of students’ responses to versions A and B

From: Freshman Undergraduate Biology Students’ Difficulties with the Concept of Common Ancestry

Factor

Coefficient

P value

One level increase in taxonomic difference

−0.50

<10−16

Question order (changing from low-to-high to high-to-low)

0.21

6.26 × 10−9

  1. The coefficient is the natural logarithm of the change in the odds ratio resulting from a change in the corresponding factor