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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 11.
Published in final edited form as: Evol Hum Behav. 2018 Mar 8;39(3):355–363. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.03.003

Table 2.

Proportion of participants providing each response type to open-ended questions about decision to eat or not eat the honey or broth by contaminate.

Honey
Broth
Hyena (n = 51) Cough (n = 51) Poison (n = 51) Bead (n = 66) Hyena (n = 51) Cough (n = 51) Poison (n = 51) Bead (n = 66)

Sickness/disease 0.08 0.94 0 0.03 0.02 0.63 0 0
Germs 0 0 0.02 0.02 0 0 0 0
Presence of item 0.75 0 0 0.02 0.75 0.29 0 0.52
Dirty 0 0 0 0.41 0 0 0 0.09
Poison 0 0 0.94 0 0.04 0 0.98 0
Choke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Change in smell/taste 0.16 0 0.14 0 0.12 0.02 0.10 0
Ok to eat 0.04 0 0.02 0.42 0 0 0 0.39
Unsure 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0