Internationally, public acceptance of evolution has been shown to be negatively related to religiosity and positively related to education level, GDP per capita and science literacy (Heddy & Nadelson, 2012).
Universities were penalised for teaching what students wanted, with a cut in arts grants per capita and an increase in science ones.
As predicted, religiosity, school-life expectancy, science literacy, and GDP per capita were strongly correlated with public acceptance of evolution.
Provo ranked second in the number of science and tech jobs per capita, and Madison ranked third in its proportion of creative jobs.
Scotland, writes Daniel Clearly in this week's Science, has more universities per capita in the world's top 200 than any other country.
We also predicted that there would be a positive correlation of public acceptance of evolution with school-life expectancy, science literacy, and GDP per capita.
For most countries, religiosity is negatively associated with evolution acceptance while school-life expectancy, science literacy, and GDP per capita are positively related to acceptance.
However, the US still produces the most science and engineering doctorates per capita.
On a per capita basis, the former foreign students in computer science file fewer patents, are less likely to work in research and development and have degrees from less selective U.S. universities.
Our results indicate significant relationships between public acceptance of evolution and religiosity, school-life expectancy, science literacy, and gross domestic product per capita.
