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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 Republic of Korea24.5%
2 Italy20.7%
3 United Kingdom18.7%
4 United States13.4%
5 Australia13.3%
6 Germany13.2%
7 France10.7%
8 Japan 10.4%
9 Sweden8.2%

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 1 countries.
Source
ISSP 2008

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.775079 X +7.443
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -126089.776823 X +68119.944
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.166959 X +81.739
Correlation coefficient (r)0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.238393 X +2.096
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.778
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.605
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 29.179756 X +9.896
Correlation coefficient (r)0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062