Note: All χ2 and F tests are significant at p<.01. Source: Virginia Commonwealth University Life Sciences Surveys, 2002–2010, N = 8,105. No survey was collected in 2009.

aConfirmatory fit index.bRoot mean square error of approximation.cScaling correction factor provided by Mplus output for WLSM.dSatorra-Bentler chi-square difference test...

1Information not completed by participants at their own discretion. Marital Status, Education and Household Income were unfortunately not collected during first pilot testing of...

+p values are from differences in proportions tests. Bonferroni corrections for 25 simultaneous tests lower 0.05 to 0.002, 0.01 to 0.000,4 and 0.001 to 0.000,04. *Sig. at p =...

Supplementary information. (DOCX)

1#RSclimate refers to a debate that took place at the Royal Society [31] UK on 3 October.

Note: * p<.05. ** p<.01. *** p<.001. Respondents were asked: “On the whole, how much do you favor or oppose medical research that uses stem cells from human embryos - do you...

Twitter users with ten or more conversational connections, coded by attitude to IPCC.

+p values are from differences in proportions tests. Bonferroni corrections for 26 simultaneous tests lower 0.05 to 0.001,923, 0.01 to 0.000,385 and 0.001 to 0.000,039. *Sig....

p<0.05 ;*p<0.01.

The preference coefficients of the β-vector are estimated from the logit model. The WTP estimates are obtained as the ratio of the β of the attribute in question relative to the...

Example tweets from each category of Twitter user.

Note: Respondents were asked: “As far as you know, is [George W. Bush/John Kerry] in favor or opposed to the use of federal funds for stem cell research which involves the...

Measurement scales, reliability, and validity.

Model comparison.

1Factor loadings were standardized and were all significant at p<0.001. Factor loadings suggest acceptable correlations between each of the multi-item variables. Moreover,...

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