Table 3.

Mean (standard deviation) associative evaluation and mean (standard deviation) evaluation of all words mentioned by participants.

	Genetic modification		Cross-pollination		Gene-editing		Synthetic biology
	M (SD)	n	M (SD)	n	M (SD)	n	M (SD)	n
Mean overall associative evaluation	3.24 (1.026)	45	3.64 (0.609)	45	3.26 (0.828)	45	3.07 (0.846)	45
Mean score of all evaluated words per breeding technique	3.48 (1.156)	211	3.77 (0.869)	175	3.49 (0.865)	150	3.35 (1.115)	135

Because some words written down were not evaluated, the number of observations of mean scores of all evaluated words per breeding technique does not fully correspond with the number of mentioned associations in Tables 2 and 3.