With respect to understanding evolution, African Americans exhibited a significantly lower understanding of evolution (Table 6) than European Americans (p = 0.05).
African Americans, in particular, showed higher religiosity and lower understanding of evolution compared with Hispanic/Latino(a) participants, pointing to the need to address these factors within African American communities specifically.
School professionals have lesser knowledge of the violence and lower understanding of their role in child protection referral producers.
However, it has been established that current smokers have a lower understanding of other risks including macular degeneration, cataracts and oral diseases compared with non-smokers.
However, children and parents with low socio-economic background or migration background could not be represented adequately in the Baden-Württemberg Study itself because of lower rate of informed consent or lower understanding of the questionnaires.
The perception that mosquitoes are a nuisance may explain why women were more likely to use bednets, coils and repellents even though they had lower understanding of malaria transmission.
Miller and colleagues [ 59] report that low socio-economic status (SES) and membership of a minority ethnic group (in this case largely Hispanic) was associated with lower understanding of key components of informed consent.
Knowledge of the purpose of patient decision aids was generally high, although somewhat lower in understanding the functions related to deliberation (77.6% correct) and affective forecasting (61.2% correct).
Did you hear that he didn't really write those plays?" In an age where sound bites dominate, the simplified yet misguided message of "Anonymous" may very well prove more memorable than actual historical facts, dangerously and irresponsibly lowering public understanding of an important cultural issue.
Lower indices represented lower levels of understanding combined with higher levels of biological evolution-related misconceptions.
Our study suggests that lower income and not completing high school are predictors of lower levels of understanding.
