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Saturday, September 30, 2006
GSS SCITEST4 asks In your opinion, how true is this? ... D. Human beings developed from earlier species of animals. | Frequency Distribution |
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Cells contain:
-Column percent
-N of cases | HUMANS EVOLVED FROM ANIMALS |
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1
DEFINITELY TRUE | 2
PROBABLY TRUE | 3
PROBABLY NOT TRUE | 4
DEFINITELY NOT TRUE | ROW
TOTAL |
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| GOD | 1: DONT BELIEVE | 9.3
51 | 2.3
26 | 2.0
12 | 1.0
12 | 2.9
101 |
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| 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 | | COL TOTAL | 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 Distribution |
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Cells contain:
-Column percent
-N of cases | SCITEST4 |
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1
DEFINITELY TRUE | 2
PROBABLY TRUE | 3
PROBABLY NOT TRUE | 4
DEFINITELY NOT TRUE | ROW
TOTAL |
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| BIBLE | 1: WORD OF GOD | 14.0
47 | 21.0
160 | 31.6
134 | 54.5
466 | 34.0
807 |
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| 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 | | COL TOTAL | 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 Statistics |
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Cells contain:
-Means
-N of cases | DEGREE |
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0
LT HIGH SCHOOL | 1
HIGH SCHOOL | 2
JUNIOR COLLEGE | 3
BACHELOR | 4
GRADUATE | ROW
TOTAL |
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| GOD | 1: DONT BELIEVE | 2.71
14 | 1.87
47 | 2.33
3 | 1.32
25 | 1.75
12 | 1.85
101 |
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| 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 | | COL TOTAL | 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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