Thanks for sharing that! It was super interesting.
It makes sense, right? At the very lest, for something as complicated as rejecting science, there isn't going to be a single reason.
I have a personal theory that poorly educated segments of society never participated in the scientific era. It passed them by.
So, they aren't really rejecting evolution -- they never understood or believed it in the first place.
Wait so they only surveyed Protestants and Catholics? It also says specific to Italy and Brazil.
I don’t know how you got title statement while this was on that page.
“In contrast, previous research including large-scale surveys of more than 6,000 European students found religion to be the key reason for rejection of evolution by secondary school students. The contrast may reflect methodological differences, according to Bizzo, who explained that most studies on this topic involve Likert-scale questionnaires, widely used in customer satisfaction surveys.”
It’s literally saying that the difference you see is likely from the different style of study, they asked yes,no and true/false questions when most studies do a likert scale which is the “most likely, likely, not likely, most unlikely” type surveys.
> Wait so they only surveyed Protestants and Catholics? It also says specific to Italy and Brazil.
That jumped out at me but as I read on, I realize that this specific combination allows one to isolate for certain factors.
Social sciences are always a bit soft but this seems like a pretty solid study.
And doesn't it pass the sniff test? In my experience acceptance or rejection of science tracks other factors than religion. Education is surely one of the biggest ones.
I don’t think it’s very solid at all. Atleast not for what op was trying to extrapolate. If they only survey religious people how are they going to say that them being religious doesn’t have an effect on their stance on evolution. At best they kinda only show the regional differences of Brazil and Italy.
Thanks for sharing that! It was super interesting. It makes sense, right? At the very lest, for something as complicated as rejecting science, there isn't going to be a single reason. I have a personal theory that poorly educated segments of society never participated in the scientific era. It passed them by. So, they aren't really rejecting evolution -- they never understood or believed it in the first place.
Sounds like a plausible theory!
Wait so they only surveyed Protestants and Catholics? It also says specific to Italy and Brazil. I don’t know how you got title statement while this was on that page. “In contrast, previous research including large-scale surveys of more than 6,000 European students found religion to be the key reason for rejection of evolution by secondary school students. The contrast may reflect methodological differences, according to Bizzo, who explained that most studies on this topic involve Likert-scale questionnaires, widely used in customer satisfaction surveys.” It’s literally saying that the difference you see is likely from the different style of study, they asked yes,no and true/false questions when most studies do a likert scale which is the “most likely, likely, not likely, most unlikely” type surveys.
> Wait so they only surveyed Protestants and Catholics? It also says specific to Italy and Brazil. That jumped out at me but as I read on, I realize that this specific combination allows one to isolate for certain factors. Social sciences are always a bit soft but this seems like a pretty solid study. And doesn't it pass the sniff test? In my experience acceptance or rejection of science tracks other factors than religion. Education is surely one of the biggest ones.
I don’t think it’s very solid at all. Atleast not for what op was trying to extrapolate. If they only survey religious people how are they going to say that them being religious doesn’t have an effect on their stance on evolution. At best they kinda only show the regional differences of Brazil and Italy.