TABLE 7.

Summary of final linear regression model for basic component score by particular inaccurate ideas^a

Variable	Estimate (β)	SE	t value	p value
Intercept	1.911	0.048	39.621	<0.001
Unmodified pathogen	0.548	0.082	6.669	<0.001
Vaccine is treatment	−1.001	0.127	−7.859	<0.001
Vaccine directly harms pathogen	−0.925	0.153	−6.033	<0.001
Single vaccine for all diseases	−0.728	0.143	−5.092	<0.001

^an = 635. Bolded values are significantly different from 0 (p < 0.05). This final model is a product of a model selection process that finds the most significant variables. Initially included variables were the presence or absence of the five most common inaccurate ideas (listed in Table 6).