Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Those with more education highly supportive of government investment in scientific research
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- Appendix A: Detailed charts and tables
- Trust in scientists is often higher among those with more education
- Younger adults tend to have more trust in scientists in some of these places
- More educated adults often more likely to say public doesn’t know enough to understand science news
- In many European countries, men are more likely than women to rate their medical treatments, university STEM education and scientific achievements highly
- Those with more education highly supportive of government investment in scientific research
- Those on the ideological left generally more likely than those on the right to prioritize protecting the environment
- Younger people are often more likely to prioritize protecting the environment over job creation
- In some publics, stronger support for increasing renewable energy production on the ideological left
- Those on political left tend to see more benefits, less risk, from childhood vaccines
- Adults with more education often more likely to see these foods as generally safe than those with less education
- Public priorities on environmental protection have gone up over the past 15 years in most publics