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. 2017 Jan 4;12(1):e0168564. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168564

Table 4. Mean Scores of SRES Evaluation Criteria.

Synthetic Biology Application
Biomining Cyberplasm De-extinction Plant Microbes
M SD M SD M SD M SD
R1: Human health risk 3.63 (1.7) 4.06 (1.7) 3.60 (1.7) 3.06 (1.7)
Expert uncertainty of measure 4.42 (2.3) 4.00 (2.5) 4.60 (2.5) 5.11 (2.2)
R2: Environmental health risk 5.09 (1.6) 3.46 (1.8) 5.71 (1.6) 4.37 (1.4)
Expert uncertainty of measure 3.97 (2.3) 4.14 (2.7) 5.23 (2.1) 5.00 (2.3)
R3: Unmanageability 4.63 (1.7) 5.17 (1.8) 6.34 (2.1) 5.66 (2.0)
Expert uncertainty of measure 5.03 (2.3) 5.43 (2.6) 4.60 (1.9) 4.57 (2.2)
R4: Irreversibility 4.23 (1.6) 3.71 (1.7) 4.83 (2.0) 4.77 (1.6)
Expert uncertainty of measure 3.66 (2.4) 3.86 (2.8) 5.29 (2.0) 4.77 (2.0)
R5: Commercial development 5.34 (1.9) 2.37 (1.8) 2.77 (2.2) 6.37 (1.7)
Expert uncertainty of measure 4.34 (2.3) 4.91 (2.5) 5.37 (2.4) 5.57 (2.1)
R6: Lack of benefits to human health 6.00 (2.0) 5.69 (2.0) 7.63 (1.7) 5.40 (2.1)
Expert uncertainty of measure 5.71 (1.9) 5.37 (2.3) 5.37 (2.7) 4.40 (1.9)
R7: Lack of benefits to the environment 5.40 (1.8) 6.06 (1.7) 6.77 (2.0) 4.86 (2.0)
Expert uncertainty of measure 5.40 (2.2) 5.31 (2.4) 4.66 (2.1) 4.57 (2.0)
R8: Public concern 3.97 (2.1) 5.80 (2.0) 5.89 (2.1) 5.77 (1.8)
Expert uncertainty of measure 5.29 (2.0) 4.77 (2.2) 5.57 (1.8) 5.86 (2.1)
Mean Risk Score (R) 4.79 4.54 5.44 5.03
Mean Uncertainty Score (U) 4.73 4.72 5.09 4.98