Table 2 Teachers’ perceptions of consensus among scientists on human evolution (percentages within column)
From: Teaching evolution in U.S. public middle schools: results of the first national survey
| What proportion of scientists think humans and other living things have evolved over time? | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle school | High school | N | |
| 0–20% | 1.0 | 0.4 | 9 |
| 21–40% | 3.1 | 1.3 | 27 |
| 41–60% | 13.1 | 6.2 | 112 |
| 61–80% | 27.5 | 20.8 | 313 |
| 81–100% | 55.4 | 71.3 | 859 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 1320 |