Fig 3. Communication profiles prevalence and view of the public (n = 33).

(a) Prevalence of the teaching (yellow), advocating (green), and discussing (purple) profiles when segmenting the sample by career stage, field, and hypothesis preference of the researchers; (b) View of public attitude towards OoL (brown series), target public (blue series), and public’s prior knowledge of OoL (green series) seen by all scientists (overall), as well as by the different communication profiles.