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As predicted, religiosity, school-life expectancy, science literacy, and GDP per capita were strongly correlated with public acceptance of evolution.
Our results indicate significant relationships between public acceptance of evolution and religiosity, school-life expectancy, science literacy, and gross domestic product per capita.
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.
We chose these countries for our study because public acceptance of evolution, school-life expectancy, science literacy, and GDP data were available for each from a variety of sources.
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For all the advancements that aim to make life-expectancy science more precise, death remains one of the most uncertain certainties around.
Further, the relationship between school-life expectancy and science literacy suggests that there are elements of additional education that lead to evolution acceptance that are not associated with science literacy.
Studies have demonstrated that factors such as, high religiosity, low school-life expectancy, low science literacy, and/or low GDP correlate to a lower acceptance of evolution among the public in other countries (Heddy and Nadelson 2012).
But now laboratories around the globe are working on unlocking the mysteries of the biology of aging with some encouraging results and the prospect looms of significant advances that could catapult life expectancy to science fiction levels.
With today's growing life expectancies and advancing medical science, the 65-year-old investor may still have a 20-year (or more) time horizon.
"Seventh in literacy, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy.
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