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Table 2 Proportions of level 1 students (percentage) who accepted or rejected evolution arranged according to their intended degree programs and to their pre-university experience in biology: data combined from 2008 to 2009 and 2009 to 2010

From: Evolution and Religion: Attitudes of Scottish Bioscience Students to the Teaching of Evolutionary Biology

 

Accepters

Rejecters

% Rejecters in each group

Intended degree program

n = 487

n = 26

 

 Zoology/aquatic

15

4

1.4

 Sports science

10

38

16.9

 Pharmacology

5

12

11.1

 Psychology

13

31

11.3

 Chemistry

17

15

4.6

 Human biology

14

0

 Microbiology

7

0

 Biology/biotechnology

19

0

Pre-university biology

n = 527

n = 31

 

 High (Scottish higher or above)

68

45

3.8

 Low (Scottish standard grade)

2

0

0

 None

30

55

9.7

  1. Sample sizes in intended degree program and pre-university biology differ because not all students provided the relevant information