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Question: Do you agree that overall, modern science does more harm than good?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Kenya49.0%
2 Philippines47.8%
3 Tanzania46.5%
4 South Africa44.4%
5 Dominican Republic42.4%
6 Mexico39.4%
7 Taiwan38.6%
8 Chile36.5%
9 Sri Lanka33.8%
10 Venezuela31.6%
11 Uruguay31.0%
12 Slovenia25.7%
13 Portugal25.3%
14 Republic of Korea24.5%
14 Turkiye24.5%
16 Croatia23.7%
17 Italy20.7%
18 Ireland19.6%
19 Spain18.8%
20 United Kingdom18.7%
21 Ukraine17.8%
22 Indonesia17.7%
23 Israel17.4%
24 Hungary17.3%
25 Slovakia16.1%
26 Switzerland15.9%
27 Austria14.3%
27 New Zealand14.3%
29 Latvia14.0%
30 Cyprus13.9%
31 Russian Federation13.4%
31 United States13.4%
33 Australia13.3%
34 Germany13.2%
35 Czech Republic13.1%
36 Finland12.7%
37 Denmark11.7%
38 Poland11.3%
39 France10.7%
40 Japan 10.4%
41 Netherlands8.9%
42 Belgium8.7%
43 Sweden8.2%
44 Norway6.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -4.447402 X +7.263
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.600
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.360

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -135918.412267 X +63708.264
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.604
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.365

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -35.076216 X +84.776
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.674
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.454

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 3.364476 X +1.073
Correlation coefficient (r)0.607
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.368

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -3.881496 X +11.007
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008