GSS SCITEST4 asks
Frequency DistributionIn your opinion, how true is this? … D. Human beings developed from earlier species of animals.
HUMANS EVOLVED FROM ANIMALS
ROW
TOTAL
| Cells contain: -Column percent -N of cases |
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| 1 DEFINITELY TRUE |
2 PROBABLY TRUE |
3 PROBABLY NOT TRUE |
4 DEFINITELY NOT TRUE |
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| 1: DONT BELIEVE | 9.3 51 |
2.3 26 |
2.0 12 |
1.0 12 |
2.9 101 |
| 2: NO WAY TO FIND OUT | 9.5 52 |
5.6 63 |
2.9 17 |
.4 5 |
3.9 137 |
| 3: SOME HIGHER POWER | 18.6 102 |
13.7 155 |
5.2 31 |
1.8 22 |
8.8 310 |
| 4: BELIEVE SOMETIMES | 5.5 30 |
5.8 66 |
3.0 18 |
.9 11 |
3.5 125 |
| 5: BELIEVE BUT DOUBTS | 19.5 107 |
21.8 246 |
22.2 132 |
5.7 71 |
15.8 556 |
| 6: KNOW GOD EXISTS | 37.7 207 |
50.8 574 |
64.7 385 |
90.4 1,133 |
65.2 2,299 |
| 100.0 549 |
100.0 1,130 |
100.0 595 |
100.0 1,254 |
100.0 3,528 |
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| Color coding: | <-2.0 | <-1.0 | <0.0 | >0.0 | >1.0 | >2.0 | Z |
| N in each cell: | Smaller than expected | Larger than expected | |||||
As you would expect, this also holds for BIBLE:
Frequency DistributionSCITEST4
ROW
TOTAL
| Cells contain: -Column percent -N of cases |
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| 1 DEFINITELY TRUE |
2 PROBABLY TRUE |
3 PROBABLY NOT TRUE |
4 DEFINITELY NOT TRUE |
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| 1: WORD OF GOD | 14.0 47 |
21.0 160 |
31.6 134 |
54.5 466 |
34.0 807 |
| 2: INSPIRED WORD | 44.9 151 |
56.7 432 |
54.7 232 |
41.5 355 |
49.2 1,170 |
| 3: BOOK OF FABLES | 39.6 133 |
21.7 165 |
12.5 53 |
3.3 28 |
15.9 379 |
| 4: OTHER | 1.5 5 |
.7 5 |
1.2 5 |
.7 6 |
.9 21 |
| 100.0 336 |
100.0 762 |
100.0 424 |
100.0 855 |
100.0 2,377 |
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The trend holds when you compare across groups by educational attainment. Here is a table of the average response to SCITEST4 (lower = better).
Main StatisticsDEGREE
ROW
TOTAL
| Cells contain: -Means -N of cases |
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| 0 LT HIGH SCHOOL |
1 HIGH SCHOOL |
2 JUNIOR COLLEGE |
3 BACHELOR |
4 GRADUATE |
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| 1: DONT BELIEVE | 2.71 14 |
1.87 47 |
2.33 3 |
1.32 25 |
1.75 12 |
1.85 101 |
| 2: NO WAY TO FIND OUT | 2.36 14 |
1.93 55 |
1.25 4 |
1.69 36 |
1.56 27 |
1.82 136 |
| 3: SOME HIGHER POWER | 2.12 33 |
2.13 146 |
1.88 17 |
1.62 81 |
1.41 32 |
1.91 309 |
| 4: BELIEVE SOMETIMES | 2.37 19 |
2.17 66 |
2.14 7 |
1.94 18 |
1.47 15 |
2.08 125 |
| 5: BELIEVE BUT DOUBTS | 2.52 62 |
2.40 292 |
2.56 36 |
2.06 108 |
1.88 58 |
2.30 556 |
| 6: KNOW GOD EXISTS | 3.06 414 |
3.20 1,251 |
3.07 146 |
2.82 344 |
2.38 132 |
3.06 2,287 |
| 2.89 556 |
2.88 1,857 |
2.81 213 |
2.37 612 |
2.00 276 |
2.72 3,514 |
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| Color coding: | <-2.0 | <-1.0 | <0.0 | >0.0 | >1.0 | >2.0 | T |
| Mean in each cell: | Smaller than average | Larger than average | |||||
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