Several studies document positive correlations between prior biology or evolution coursework and acceptance of evolution.
In later studies (Winther 2010; Winther et al. 2013), they reported significant correlations between prior knowledge and domain-specific performance in accounting and controlling (although they were relatively weak, r = 0.18).
Overall, these data suggested only a slight correlation between students' prior math knowledge and their performance scores on questions concerning Poiseuille's law.
We did find a weak negative correlation between fecundity prior to the infection experiment and bacterial load at 24 hours post-infection on the low-sugar diet (r = -0.664, p = 0.036, Figure 5).
For the group that learned through the static images, regression analysis showed a high correlation between students' prior knowledge about DNA (pretest scores) and their resulting understanding of PCR (posttest): low pretest scorers tended to have low posttest scores.
For relations with more than 3 independent samples, the mean observed correlations ranged from.20 to.27 between prior self-concept and subsequent academic achievement and from.19 to.25 between prior academic achievement and subsequent self-concept.
The absence of correlation between PaO2/FiO2 ratio prior to VV ECMO deployment and outcome was not surprising and in accordance with a recent report [ 2].
