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The average age of the guides was 41 ± 8.6 years old (range = 25 58 years old) and their average amount of time spent as a GNP guide was 13.3 ± 9.5 years (range = 4 34 years).
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There are approximately 320 registered GNP guides in Galápagos (Moore and Cotner 2013).
Specifically, what do GNP guides know, think, and teach tourists about evolution?
We wondered how GNP guides might influence tourists' perceptions of evolution during their visits.
That is, GNP guides are far more accepting of evolution than are the islands' biology teachers.
In general, GNP guides are confident that they understand evolution, but their KEE scores averaged only 44%.
Although GNP guides' knowledge of evolution exceeds that of teachers by 22%, the guides' acceptance of evolution exceeds that of teachers by 56%.
In August, 2015, we surveyed GNP guides living and working on the three most populated islands in the Galápagos archipelago: Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal, and Isabela.
The uncoupling of GNP guides' confidence about evolution from their knowledge of evolution may also be partly due to the prominent religiosity in the islands.
Of the 63 GNP guides who took the survey, 35% were based on Santa Cruz, 27% were based on San Cristóbal, and 38% were based on Isabela.
These results indicate that GNP guides' confidence about their knowledge of evolution is, like that of Galápagos teachers, uncoupled from their actual knowledge about evolution.
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