The impact of direct challenges to student endorsement of teleological reasoning on understanding and acceptance of natural selection: an exploratory study

Table 1 Spearman correlations among pre-semester variables, assessed prior to presentation of course material

	Parental attitude	Student religiosity	Evolution acceptance (I-SEA)	Prior education	Teleological reasoning
Parental attitude	–
Student Religiosity	− 0.32	–
Evolution acceptance (I-SEA)	0.58^‡	− 0.34^*	–
Prior education	0.28	− 0.07	0.36^*	–	–
Teleological reasoning	− 0.19	0.35^*	− 0.44^†	− 0.25	–
Natural Selection Understanding (CINS)	0.15	− 0.30^*	0.30^*	0.22	− 0.65^‡

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