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Table 3 Percent of correct responses to Darwin-in-Galápagos survey items

From: Teaching the tourists in Galápagos: what do Galápagos National Park guides know, think, and teach tourists about evolution?

Percent of GNP guides that responded correctly to Darwin-in-Galápagos survey items

Darwin item #

Knowledge of Darwin revealed

Guides

1

Can identify when (roughly) Charles Darwin visited the islands

85.7

2

Can identify why Darwin visited the islands

91.8

3

Are aware that mockingbirds—not finches—were the birds that most impressed Charles Darwin

39.7

4

Know that Darwin visited four islands during the Beagle’s stopover in the archipelago

86.7

5

Can identify On the Origin of Species as the book Darwin wrote, describing his theory of evolution

100.0

  1. Sample sizes for each item vary from 60 to 63