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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2012 Jan 24;59(2):101–104. doi: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2011.00604.x

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Acceptance of evolution plotted as function of religiosity (RI), science (SI), and evolution (EI) indexes. Each index ranges from 0 to 3 (least to most religious or knowledgeable about science or evolution; see text for details). The three-dimensional landscape is consistent with the theoretical parameters depicted in Fig. 1. The New England faculty held the highest acceptance of evolution position (N = 244; RI = 0.49; SI = 2.49; EI = 2.49), followed by protistologists (N = 50; RI = 0.46; SI = 2.30; EI = 2.48), educators of prospective teachers (N = 62; RI = 0.83; SI = 1.96; EI = 1.96), and students (N = 827; RI = 0.89; SI = 1.80; EI = 1.60). Percentage values written within brackets correspond to responders admitting to accept evolution openly regardless of others opinions (first value), or thinking that evolution is definitely true (second value).