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Table 9 Intercorrelations between sociocultural, personal, and contextual variables and the closed-ended explanations from the three reasoning patterns

From: Changing Museum Visitors’ Conceptions of Evolution

Sociocultural personal and contextual variables ER evolution term ER Selection ER common descent IR need-based adaptation IR desire-based change IR proximate cause CR intentional design
Religiosity −0.25* −0.18 −0.23 0.01   0.00   0.28*   0.32
Compatibility of own religion with evolution   0.34**   0.38**   0.39** 0.22 −0.23 −0.13 −0.39**
Acceptance of evolutionary origins   0.87***   0.57***   0.74*** 0.41*** −0.11 −0.40** −0.52***
Importance of scientists’ studying evolution   0.34**   0.24   0.34** 0.17 −0.31 −0.34** −0.37**
Importance of self understanding evolution   0.51***   0.37**   0.52*** 0.24 −0.28* −0.43*** −0.56***
Own knowledge of evolution   0.36**   0.24   0.19 0.27* −0.06 −0.19 −0.28*
Time spent at exhibit   0.24   0.18   0.11 0.11 −0.15 −0.33** −0.32**
Interest in the organisms in the exhibit   0.51***   0.41***   0.47*** 0.23 −0.03 −0.07 −0.30*
Age   0.17   0.14   0.11 0.00 −0.23 −0.21 −0.33**
  1. Pearson’s r was used for interval data comparisons, including summated scale scores; Spearman’s rho was used for ordinal data comparisons
  2. ER evolutionary reasoning, IR intuitive reasoning, CR creationist reasoning
  3. *p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001
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Evolution: Education and Outreach

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