Children’s Intuitive Teleology: Shifting the Focus of Evolution Education Research

Table 2 Percentage (%) of children who provided both teleological explanations and explanations for usefulness

Percentage (%) of children who provided both teleological explanations and explanations for usefulness		Pre-school	First-grade	Second-grade
		(Ν = 74)	(N = 153)	(Ν = 149)
Duck feet	Color	2,7^a	5.8	1.3^a
Duck feet	Shape	16.3^a	31.4^a	17.4^a
Scissors	Color	1.4^a	0.7^a	0.7^a
Scissors	Shape	28.4	37.3	29.5^a
Rock	Color	5.4	3.3^a	2.7^a
Rock	Shape	4.1	3.9^a	1.3^a
Booby feet	Color	4.1^a	5.3^a	4.0^a
Booby feet	Shape	8.1	21.6	18.1^a
Nutcracker	Color	2.7	2.6^a	1.3^a
Nutcracker	Shape	6.8^a	26.1^a	22.2^a
Stalagmite	Color	5.4^a	1.3^a	1.3^a
Stalagmite	Shape	1.4^a	7.2^a	2.0^a

^aIndicates that there was no statistically significant difference and that therefore there was a correlation between teleological explanations and explanations for usefulness

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