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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada60.7%
2 Italy25.9%
3 United Kingdom19.7%
4 Japan 15.4%
5 United States14.8%
6 Germany14.0%
6 Sweden14.0%
8 France12.9%
9 Australia11.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.
Source
ISSP 1998

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.110764 X +6.834
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10593.026486 X +53619.334
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.111179 X +81.746
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.522921 X +1.641
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.871799 X +13.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080